Adolescence is a period of dynamic change across multiple systems. Concurrent maturation
of neural, biological, and psychosocial functioning renders adolescence a time of …

Social relationships promote health and wellbeing. Brain regions regulating social behavior
continue to develop throughout adolescence, as teens learn to navigate their social …

Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins around the onset of
puberty and ends with relative independence from the parent. This developmental period is …

The past decade has seen the emergence of the use of reinforcement learning models to
study developmental change in value-based learning. It is unclear, however, whether these …

Adolescence brings dramatic changes in behavior and neural organization. Unfortunately,
for some 30% of individuals with autism, there is marked decline in adaptive functioning …

Highlights•Adolescence may be a period of heightened sensitivity to social reward.•Playing
with a conspecific is more rewarding for adolescent than adult rats.•Human adolescents …

Highlights•We examine how trajectories of brain development shape adolescent decision
processes.•Prolonged prefrontal development may constrain multiple component processes …

The recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of reinforcement learning
(RL) models in social, cognitive and affective neuroscience. This approach, in combination …

Species-expected caregiving early in life is critical for the normative development and
regulation of emotional behavior, the ability to effectively evaluate affective stimuli in the …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has illuminated the development of human
brain function. Some of this work in typically-developing youth has ostensibly captured …