Recent neuroscience models of adolescent brain development attribute the morbidity and
mortality of this period to structural and functional imbalances between more fully developed …

Trying to understand why adolescents and young adults take more risks than younger or
older individuals do has challenged psychologists for decades. Adolescents' inclination to …

Background Risk‐taking, which involves voluntary choices for behaviors where outcomes
remain uncertain, undergoes considerable developmental changes during childhood …

In line with the goal of limiting health risk behaviors in adolescence, a growing literature
investigates whether individual differences in functional brain responses can be related to …

According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because
activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies …

The relation between brain development across adolescence and adolescent risky behavior
has attracted increasing interest in recent years. It has been proposed that adolescents are …

Adolescence is associated with heightened mortality rates due in large measure to negative
consequences from risky behaviors. Theories of adolescent risk taking posit that it is driven …

While there is little doubt that risk-taking is generally more prevalent during adolescence
than before or after, the underlying causes of this pattern of age differences have long been …

Developmental imbalance models attribute the rise in risk-taking during adolescence to a
universal imbalance between rising reward sensitivity and lagging cognitive control. This …

The adolescent age period is often characterized as a health paradox because it is a time of
extensive increases in physical and mental capabilities, yet overall mortality/morbidity rates …