Is there heightened sensitivity to social reward in adolescence?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 81-85

  Foulkes, Lucy ^a   Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PEER GROUP; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL REWARD; SOCIAL STIMULATION; STIMULATION; VENTRAL STRIATUM; ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; REWARD;

EID: 84978431661     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.06.016     Document Type: Review

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