Conflict between Threat Sensitivity and Sensation Seeking in the Adolescent Brain: Role of the Hippocampus, and Neurobehavioural Plasticity Induced by Pleasurable Early Enriched Experience

Adolescence is characterized both by the exacerbation of the experience of anxiety, fear or threat, on one hand, and by increased reward seeking (reward sensitivity) and risk taking on the other hand. The rise of these apparently opposite processes, i.e., threat-related anxiety and reward-related se...

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Main Author: Alberto Fernández-Teruel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/2/268