2023
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1297293
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Propensity for risky choices despite lower cue reactivity in adolescent rats

Sandford Zeng,
Elin F. B. McLaughlin,
Aishwarya Ramesh
et al.

Abstract: Adolescence is a time of heightened risk-taking across species. Salient audiovisual cues associated with rewards are a common feature of gambling environments and have been connected to increased risky decision-making. We have previously shown that, in adult male rats, sign tracking – a behavioral measure of cue reactivity – predicts an individual’s propensity for suboptimal risky choices in a rodent gambling task (rGT) with win-paired cues. However, adolescents perform less sign tracking than adult animals, s… Show more

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