Broadening the Impact of Developmental Neuroscience on the Study of Adolescence

Fuligni, Andrew J.; Dapretto, Mirella; Galván, Adriana

doi:10.1111/jora.12373

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“…Attending to adolescents’ opportunities to contribute can also provide a means to meet two pressing challenges to the field of adolescence. First, the growth of developmental neuroscience has been a key source of renewed international interest in the adolescent period (Fuligni, Dapretto, & Galván, 2018; Spear & Silveri, 2016). Yet the integration of neuroscience with social and cultural perspectives of adolescence has proved difficult.…”

Section: A New Focus On Adolescent Contributionmentioning

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The Need to Contribute During Adolescence

Fuligni

2018

Perspect Psychol Sci

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As an intensely social species, humans demonstrate the propensity to contribute to other individuals and groups by providing support, resources, or helping to achieve a shared goal. Accumulating evidence suggests that contribution benefits the givers as well as the receivers. The need to contribute during adolescence, however, has been underappreciated compared with more individually focused psychological or social developmental needs. The need is particularly significant during the teenage years, when children’s social world expands and they become increasingly capable of making contributions of consequence. Moreover, contribution can both promote and be a key element of traditionally conceived fundamental needs of the adolescent period such as autonomy, identity, and intimacy. The neural and biological foundations of the adolescent need to contribute, as well as the ways in which social environments meet that need, are discussed. A scientific and practical investment in contribution would synergize with other recent efforts to reframe thinking about the adolescent period, providing potential returns to the field as well as to youths and their communities.

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The Need to Contribute During Adolescence

Fuligni

2018

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“…For the main effects of decision, the simulation resulted in a voxel-wise threshold of P < 0.005 and minimum cluster size of 150 (stop) and 159 (go) voxels for the whole brain, which corresponds to P < 0.05, family-wise error (FWE) cluster-corrected. Given our a priori hypotheses of activation in the VS, an anatomically small structure which typically does not survive stringent correction, we applied a small volume correction for the VS, with a voxel-wise threshold of P < 0.005, and minimum cluster size of k = 20 (Giuliani and Pfeifer, 2015 ; Guassi Moreira and Telzer, 2018 ). For the PPI analyses, the simulation resulted in a voxel-wise threshold of P < 0.005 and minimum cluster size of 115 (stop) and 116 (go) voxels for the whole-brain.…”

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Differential effects of parent and peer presence on neural correlates of risk taking in adolescence

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Rogers³

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Adolescence is a developmental period associated with increased health-risk behaviors and unique sensitivity to the input from the social context, paralleled by major changes in the developing brain. Peer presence increases adolescent risk taking, associated with greater reward-related activity, while parental presence decreases risk taking, associated with decreased reward-related activity and increased cognitive control. Yet the effects specific to peers and parents are still unknown. The current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study compared within-person peer and parent influences on risky decision-making during adolescence (ages 12–15 years; N = 56). Participants completed the Yellow Light Game (YLG), a computerized driving task, during which they could make safe or risky decisions, in the presence of a peer and their parent. Behavioral findings revealed no effects of social context on risk taking. At the neural level, a collection of affective, social and cognitive regions [ventral striatum (VS), temporo-parietal junction (TPJ), and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC)] was more active during decision-making with peers than parents. Additionally, functional connectivity analyses showed greater coupling between affective, social and cognitive control regions (VS-insula, VS-TPJ) during decision-making with parents than peers. These findings highlight the complex nature of social influence processes in peer and parent contexts, and contribute to our understanding of the opportunities and vulnerabilities associated with adolescent social sensitivity.

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“…Although such studies are ideal for many experimental paradigms (comparing healthy controls to individuals with a diagnosis or a specific history), findings are often difficult to integrate with our understanding of normative development. As is discussed in the Fuligni, Dapretto, and Galvan () commentary, understanding normative development allows researchers to identify deviations in neurodevelopmental trajectories. Most adult psychiatric disorders begin during adolescence, so it is important to identify and understand the mechanisms of vulnerability, as well as resilience, across childhood and adolescence.…”

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“…Developmental neuroscience is primed to examine the impact of technology on psychopathology and adjustment because it allows researchers to study the effects of technology on the brain, and to understand neurological circuitry involved in social development across real and technological contexts. Other areas in need of further study are sex differences in neurological development (see Giedd, ) and the role of population diversity (ethnicity and socioeconomic resources) in neural development and functioning (see Fuligni et al., ).…”

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Adolescent Brain Development: Implications for Understanding Risk and Resilience Processes Through Neuroimaging Research

Morris

Squeglia

Jacobus

et al. 2018

J of Research on Adolesc

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This special section focuses on research that utilizes neuroimaging methods to examine the impact of social relationships and socioemotional development on adolescent brain function. Studies include novel neuroimaging methods that further our understanding of adolescent brain development. This special section has a particular focus on how study findings add to our understanding of risk and resilience. In this introduction to the special section, we discuss the role of neuroimaging in developmental science and provide a brief review of neuroimaging methods. We present key themes that are covered in the special section articles including: (1) emerging methods in developmental neuroscience, (2) emotion-cognition interaction, and (3) the role of social relationships in brain function. We conclude our introduction with future directions for integrating developmental neuroscience into the study of adolescence, and highlight key points from the special section's commentaries which include information on the landmark Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.

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Broadening the Impact of Developmental Neuroscience on the Study of Adolescence

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

The Need to Contribute During Adolescence

The Need to Contribute During Adolescence

Differential effects of parent and peer presence on neural correlates of risk taking in adolescence

Adolescent Brain Development: Implications for Understanding Risk and Resilience Processes Through Neuroimaging Research

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