Adolescents, adults and rewards: comparing motivational neurocircuitry recruitment using fMRI.

Adolescent risk-taking, including behaviors resulting in injury or death, has been attributed in part to maturational differences in mesolimbic incentive-motivational neurocircuitry, including ostensible oversensitivity of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) to rewards.To test whether adolescents showed in...

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Main Authors: James M Bjork, Ashley R Smith, Gang Chen, Daniel W Hommer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2897849?pdf=render