Alongside the exponential flourish of research on age-related trajectories of human brain
development during childhood and adolescence in the past two decades, there has been an …

Since the discovery that patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) show similar
deficits in cognitive control as young children, the PFC model of cognitive control …

Prior studies have highlighted adolescence as a period of increased risk-taking, which is
postulated to result from an overactive reward system in the brain. Longitudinal studies are …

Adolescence may mark a sensitive period for the development of higher-order cognition
through enhanced plasticity of cortical circuits. At the same time, animal research indicates …

Postnatal brain development is studded with sensitive periods during which experience
dependent plasticity is enhanced. This enables rapid learning from environmental inputs …

How can educators leverage neuroscience research about how the human brain learns?
How can we use this information to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment so our …

A unique feature of adolescent social re-orientation is heightened sensitivity to peer
influence when taking risks. However, positive peer influence effects are not yet well …

The ability to delay gratification increases considerably across development. Here, we test
the hypothesis that this impulse control capacity is driven by increased maturation of …

Adolescence is often described as a period of increased risk taking relative to both
childhood and adulthood. This inflection in risky choice behavior has been attributed to a …

The current study aimed to test a dual-systems model of adolescent brain development by
studying changes in intrinsic functional connectivity within and across networks typically …