The biology of risk taking

Educational Leadership

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 22-26

  Price, Lisa F ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144400426     PISSN: 00131784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bourgeois, J-P., & Rakic, P. (1993). Changes of synaptic density in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey from fetal to adult stage. Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 2801-2820.
2. Buchanan, C. M., Eccles, J. S., & Becker, J. B. (1992). Are adolescents the victims of raging hormones? Psychological Bulletin, 111, 62-107.
3. Cauffman, E., Steinberg, L., &Woolard, J. (2002, April 13). Age differences in capacities underlying competence to stand trial. Presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research for Adolescence, New Orleans, Louisiana.
4. Dahl, R. E. (2004). Adolescent brain development: A period of vulnerabilities and opportunities. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1021, 1-22.
5. Herman-Giddens, M. E., Slora, E. J., Wasserman, R. C., Bourdony, C. J., Bhapkar, M. V., Koch, G. G., et al. (1997). Secondary sexual characteristics and menses in young girls seen in office practice. Pediatrics, 99, 505-512.
6. Kaplowitz, P. B., & Oberfield, S. E. (1999). Reexamination of the age limit for defining when puberty is precocious in girls in the United States. Pediatrics, 104, 936-941.
7. King, R. A. (2002). Adolescence. In M. Lewis (Ed.), Child and adolescent psychiatry (pp. 332-342). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
8. Luna, B., & Sweeney, J. A. (2004). The emergence of collaborative brain function: fMRI studies of the development of response inhibition. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1021, 296-309.
9. Martin, C. A., Kelly, T. H., Rayens, M. K., Brogli, B. R., Brenzel, A., Smith, W. J., et al. (2002). Sensation seeking, puberty, and nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana use in adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41, 1495-1502.
10. Masten, A. S. (2004). Regulatory processes, risk, and resilience in adolescent development. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1021, 310-319.
11. Rakic, P., Bourgeois, J-P., & Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1994). Synaptic development of the cerebral cortex. Progress in Brain Research, 102, 227-243.
12. Spear, P. (2000). The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 24, 417-463.
13. Steinberg, L. (2004). Risk taking in adolescence: What changes, and why? Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1021, 51-58.
14. Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (1996). Maturity of judgment in adolescence. Law and Human Behavior, 20, 249-272.
15. Steinberg, L., & Morris, A. S. (2001). Adolescent development. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 83-110.
16. Tanner, J. M. (1968). Early maturation in man. Scientific American, 218, 21-27.