1 results match your criteria: "Department of PsychiatryGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth[Affiliation]"
Neuroeconomics and adolescent substance abuse: individual differences in neural networks and delay discounting.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
July 2013
Department of PsychiatryGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Adolescents with substance use issues show poor treatment responses, linked to how they make impulsive decisions, specifically their tendency to prefer immediate rewards over delayed ones (delay discounting).
- A study involving 30 adolescents assessed their decision-making through a task while using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe brain activity, revealing that higher impulsivity was connected to less engagement in brain areas responsible for executive control and more activation of reward valuation areas.
- The findings highlight the interaction between decision-making networks in the brain, suggesting that understanding and addressing impulsivity could improve treatment outcomes for adolescent substance abuse.