Arrested development? Reconsidering dual-systems models of brain function in adolescence and disorders

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 322-329

  Pfeifer, Jennifer H ^a   Allen, Nicholas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; NETWORK-BASED APPROACH; NEW MODEL;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN MODELS;

ADOLESCENCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR INSULA; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; IMPULSIVENESS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALADJUSTMENT; MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BASAL GANGLIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84861693297     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.011     Document Type: Review

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