Cognitive Markers of Adolescent Risk Taking: A Correlate of Drug Abuse in At-Risk Individuals

The Prison Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-96

  Rosser, Rosemary ^a   Stevens, Sally ^a   Ruiz, Bridget ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent substance abuse; frontal lobe functioning; impulsivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544304138     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885504274292     Document Type: Article

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