Background Pediatric anxiety disorders are chronic and impairing conditions that are
characterized by risk aversion and avoidance; however, the neural correlates of decision …

Avoidant behavior is a defining feature of pediatric anxiety disorders. Although prior
research has examined it from the perspective of early information processing events, there …

We investigated adolescent brain processing of decisions under conditions of varying risk,
reward, and uncertainty. Adolescents (n= 31) preformed a Decision–Reward Uncertainty …

Although risk-taking has been studied from a developmental perspective, no study has
examined how anxiety, age, risk-valence and social context interact to modulate decision …

Excessive fear responses to uncertain threat are a key feature of anxiety disorders (ADs),
though most mechanistic work considers adults. As ADs onset in childhood and confer risk …

Background: Maturation of prefrontal circuits during adolescence contributes to the
development of cognitive processes such as decision‐making. Recent theories suggest that …

Human adults tend to avoid risk. In behavioral economic studies, risk aversion is manifest as
a preference for sure gains over uncertain gains. However, children tend to be less averse to …

This study examines associations between adolescents' positive risk taking and neural
activation during risky decision-making. Participants included 144 adolescents ages 13–16 …

Anxiety is common in adolescence and has been linked to a plethora of negative outcomes
across development. While previous studies of anxiety have focused on threat sensitivity …

Adolescence is a critical period for the initiation of risk-taking behaviors. We examined the
longitudinal interplay between neural correlates of risk processing and cognitive control in …