| Title |
Adolescents, Adults and Rewards: Comparing Motivational Neurocircuitry Recruitment Using fMRI
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0011440 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
James M. Bjork, Ashley R. Smith, Gang Chen, Daniel W. Hommer |
| Abstract |
Adolescent risk-taking, including behaviors resulting in injury or death, has been attributed in part to maturational differences in mesolimbic incentive-motivational neurocircuitry, including ostensible oversensitivity of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) to rewards. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 323 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1% |
| Italy | 3 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 298 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 79 | 24% |
| Researcher | 57 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 38 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 24 | 7% |
| Other | 52 | 16% |
| Unknown | 43 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 146 | 45% |
| Neuroscience | 46 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 16 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 19 | 6% |
| Unknown | 64 | 20% |