Decision-making in the adolescent brain

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1184-1191

  Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INSULA; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; REWARD; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84866057162     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3177     Document Type: Review

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