The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence

By L. Spear. 2009

277 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Neurobiology of the Adolescent Brain and Behavior (2010, unknown): “Further, these individual and developmental differences may help to explain vulnerability in some individuals to risk-taking, which is associated with substance use and, ultimately, addiction.(65)”
The Adolescent Brain and the Emergence and Peak of Psychopathology (2015, background): “These challenges are often accompanied by elevated emotionality and occur in parallel with significant biological and physical changes, including those associated with the developing brain and the onset of puberty (Spear, 2010).”
Adolescents Prefer More Immediate Rewards When in the Presence of their Peers (2011, background): “Indeed, the heightened salience and rewarding nature of peers during adolescence appears highly conserved across species; adolescent rats also spend more time than younger or older rats interacting with peers, while showing evidence that such interactions are highly rewarding (Spear, 2009).”
Adolescent risk taking, impulsivity, and brain development: implications for prevention. (2010, background): “As noted by Spear (2009), Experiences occurring during adolescence may serve to customize the maturing brain in a way commensurate with those experiences.”
Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Developmental Perspective (2015, background): “Second, around the time of puberty, there are important changes related to hormonal changes that alter the way the brain responds to rewards (Spear 2010).”
Adolescent neurodevelopment. (2013, background): “transformations in brain that, along with rising hormone levels and other biological changes, interact with cultural, economic and psychosocial forces to shape how adolescents think, feel, and behave (2).”
Judgment and Decision Making in Adolescence (2011, background): “…in this network, which includes regions involved in reward (e.g., ventral striatum) and social information (e.g., medial prefrontal cortex) processing, may contribute to normative increases in sensation seeking and sensitivity to socioemotional stimuli in early adolescence (Spear, 2009).”
Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry (2011, unknown): “Specifically, given the elevated reward value of peer interactions in adolescence (Blakemore, 2008; Spear, 2009), the presence of peers may sensitize the incentive processing system to respond to cues signaling the potential rewards of risky behavior .”