According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because
activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies …

In recent years, a perspective on adolescent risk-taking derived from developmental
neuroscience has become increasingly popular. This perspective, referred to as the “dual …

In line with the goal of limiting health risk behaviors in adolescence, a growing literature
investigates whether individual differences in functional brain responses can be related to …

The dual systems model posits that adolescent risk-taking results from an imbalance
between a cognitive control system and an incentive processing system. Researchers …

Recent neuroscience models of adolescent brain development attribute the morbidity and
mortality of this period to structural and functional imbalances between more fully developed …

Abstract According to Dual Systems models (Casey et al., 2008; Luna and Wright, 2016;
Steinberg, 2008), a rapidly-developing socioemotional system and gradually-developing …

The dual-systems model of a ventral affective system, whose reactivity confers risks and
liabilities, and a prefrontal control system, whose regulatory capacities buffer against these …

There are few topics that are more important than risk and rational decision making, as the
contributions to this special issue attest. If we contemplate the risks and consequences of …

Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by suboptimal decisions and actions
that give rise to an increased incidence of unintentional injuries and violence, alcohol and …

Increasingly influential theories hold that the “teenage brain” suffers cognitive flaws that
impel risk taking. Aside from warnings by leading researchers that brain science is …