Brain Maturation and Risky Behavior: The Promise and the Challenges of Neuroimaging-Based Accounts

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-391

  Bjork, James M ^a   Lynne Landsman, Sarah D ^b   Sirocco, Karen ^a   Boyce, Cheryl A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Avoidance; Cognitive control; Development; Frontal cortex; Neuroimaging; Reward; Risk taking; Self control; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869219733     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12001     Document Type: Article

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