Modulation of reward-related neural activation on sensation seeking across development.

ABSTRACT: Sensation seeking is a personality construct associated with an increased propensity for engaging in risk-taking. Associations with deleterious outcomes ranging from mental health impairments to increased mortality rates highlight important public health concerns related to this construct. Although some have suggested that increased neural responsivity to reward within the ventral striatum (e.g., nucleus accumbens) may drive sensation seeking behaviors, few studies have examined the neural mechanisms associated with stable individual differences in sensation seeking across development. To address this issue, the current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the association between neural responding to reward and stable patterns of sensation seeking across a three-year

SUBMITTER: Hawes SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303670 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature