Mothers know best: redirecting adolescent reward sensitivity toward safe behavior during risk taking
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Mothers know best: redirecting adolescent reward sensitivity toward safe behavior during risk taking.
Despite being one of the healthiest developmental periods, morbidity and mortality rates increase dramatically during adolescence, largely due to preventable, risky behaviors. Heightened reward sensitivity, coupled with ineffective cognitive control, has been proposed to underlie adolescents' risk taking. In this study, we test whether reward sensitivity can be redirected to promote safe behavi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1749-5024,1749-5016
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv026