@Article{Fryt2017,
journal="Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology/Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii",
issn="1230-2813",
volume="26",
number="3",
year="2017",
title="Adolescent sensitivity to rewards, risk-taking, and adaptive behaviour: development of the dual systems perspective",
abstract=" Purpose:   According to current developmental neuroscience, adolescence is a  period of  heightened sensitivity to rewards that results in the  increased tendency towards risk. This paper presents the  current state of  knowledge on the  consequences of  adolescent sensitivity to rewards and indicates directions for future research. The  following sections describe how sensitivity to rewards can be directed towards risk-taking, safe or prosocial behaviour, and improved cognitive performance, depending on different task demands and various social contexts.   Views:   Studies on adolescent behaviour conducted from the  dual systems perspective indicate that heightened sensitivity to rewards can constitute vulnerability. The  results gathered in this paper, however, demonstrate that in several situations adolescent sensitivity to rewards can be redirected from risk-taking towards safe or prosocial behaviour, or can result in the  increased cognitive performance. Particularly interesting are the  findings showing that individual differences in neural reward-related activity during risk and social dilemma tasks performed in a  laboratory make it possible to predict risky behaviours (e.g. substance use, skipping school) and depressive symptoms, one year after the  study.   Conclusions:   Investigating consequences of  reward sensitivity in various tasks and diverse social contexts can shed more light on the  nature of  adolescent behaviour and lead to the  development of  the  dual systems perspective.",
author="Fryt, Joanna",
pages="140--145",
doi="10.5114/ppn.2017.70545",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ppn.2017.70545"
}