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The Ups and Downs of Relating Nondrug Reward Activation to Substance Use Risk in Adolescents

Author(s) -

James M. Bjork

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

current addiction reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 2196-2952

DOI - 10.1007/s40429-020-00327-7

Subject(s) - psychology , addiction , substance use , functional magnetic resonance imaging , dopaminergic , reward system , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , substance dependence , addictive behavior , cognition , psychiatry , neuroscience , dopamine

A wealth of epidemiological and cohort research, together with a healthy dose of anecdote, has characterized late-adolescence and emerging adulthood as a time of increased substance use and other risky behaviors. This review will address whether differences between adolescents or between adolescents and other age groups in dopaminergic mesolimbic recruitment by (non-drug) rewards inferred from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) could partially explain morbidity and mortality from risky-behavior-related causes in adolescents.

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