Population
102 volunteers in three different age groups: 34 adolescents, 34 younger adults, and 34 older adults
Comparison
Slot machine gambling task during functional… vs Comparisons between age groups
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Supports striatal-prefrontal maturation imbalance in adolescents; leaves open links to risk behaviors pending longitudinal data.
Lifespan-related changes during reward anticipation are characterized by different trajectories in different reward network modules, supporting the hypothesis of an imbalance in maturation of striatal and prefrontal cortex in adolescents.
Lorenz et al. (2014) studied this question.
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