The social brain in adolescence

By Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (2009, background): “…concepts such as emotional contagion, sympathy, and compassion, how these functions change across the life span, and to what extent these changes depend on the maturation and function of the prefrontal cortex in early childhood, adolescence, and later in life (but see, e.g., Blakemore 2008).”
Hypermentalizing in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Model and Data (2015, background): “Moreover, while the brain network subserving social cognition appears to be similarly recruited across age groups, preliminary evidence has accumulated in support of more subtle developmental changes in socialcognitive processing, with greater recruitment of more posterior regions as children age th”
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on internet use and escapism in adolescents (2020, background): “Given that adolescents usually place elevated value on peer interactions (Blakemore, 2008), there is a far greater need to maintain social connections despite the COVID-19 lockdown.”
Special issue on the teenage brain: Sensitivity to social evaluation (2013, neutral): “Of particular relevance are the functional properties of what is termed here socioaffective circuitry, including the amygdala, striatum, and the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), relative to regions within the ventromedial and lateral prefrontal cortices thought to flexibly regulate these responses (”
Imaging brain development: The adolescent brain (2012, background): “…and function is likely to be more complex than this, and there is currently no direct way to test the relationship between number of synapses, synaptic activity and BOLD signal in humans (see Blakemore, 2008; Harris et al., 2011; and Relationship between structural and functional development).”
Default-mode brain dysfunction in mental disorders: a systematic review. (2009, background): “MPFC has been associated with social cognition involving the monitoring of ones own psychological states, and mentalising about the psychological states of others (Blakemore, 2008; Gusnard and Raichle, 2001; Rilling et al., 2008; Schilbach et al., 2008).”
Online usage of theory of mind continues to develop in late adolescence. (2010, background): “…that brain regions critically involved in mental state attribution, in particular, medial prefrontal cortex and lateral temporoparietal regions, continue to develop both structurally (e.g. Giedd et al., 1999; Shaw et al., 2008) and functionally (see Blakemore, 2008, for review) during adolescence.”
Judgment and Decision Making in Adolescence (2011, background): “Blakemore, S. (2008). The social brain in adolescence.”
Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry (2011, neutral): “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.”
The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults. (2012, background): “This finding is consistent with several reports that adolescents engage mPFC to a greater extent than adults during tasks that explicitly require mental state attribution (Blakemore, 2008).”
Development of the social brain during adolescence (2015, background): “Adolescence is characterised by psychological changes in terms of identity, self-consciousness, and relationships with others (Sebastian, Burnett, & Blakemore, 2008; Steinberg, 2010).”