van Duijvenvoorde Anna C K, Op de Macks Zdeňa A, Overgaauw Sandy, Gunther Moor Bregtje, Dahl Ronald E, Crone Eveline A
Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Brain Cogn. 2014 Aug;89:3-14. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.10.005. Epub 2014 Feb 7.
Neurobiological models suggest that adolescents are driven by an overactive ventral striatum (VS) response to rewards that may lead to an adolescent increase in risk-taking behavior. However, empirical studies showed mixed findings of adolescents' brain response to rewards. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the relationship between reward-related brain activation and risky decision-making. In addition, we examined effects of age, puberty, and individuals' reward sensitivity. We collected two datasets: Experiment 1 reports cross-sectional brain data from 75 participants (ages 10-25) who played a risky decision task. Experiment 2 presents a longitudinal extension in which a subset of these adolescents (n=33) was measured again 2years later. Results showed that (1) a reward-related network including VS and medial PFC was consistently activated over time, (2) the propensity to choose the risky option was related to increased reward-related activation in VS and medial PFC, and (3) longitudinal comparisons indicated that self-reported reward sensitivity was specifically related to VS activation over time. Together, these results advance our insights in the brain circuitry underlying reward processing across adolescence.
神经生物学模型表明,青少年腹侧纹状体(VS)对奖励的反应过度活跃,这可能导致青少年冒险行为增加。然而,实证研究对青少年大脑对奖励的反应结果不一。在本研究中,我们旨在阐明与奖励相关的大脑激活与风险决策之间的关系。此外,我们还研究了年龄、青春期和个体奖励敏感性的影响。我们收集了两个数据集:实验1报告了75名参与者(年龄在10 - 25岁之间)参与风险决策任务的横断面脑数据。实验2进行了纵向扩展,其中一部分青少年(n = 33)在两年后再次接受测量。结果表明:(1)一个包括VS和内侧前额叶皮质的与奖励相关的网络随时间持续被激活;(2)选择风险选项的倾向与VS和内侧前额叶皮质中与奖励相关的激活增加有关;(3)纵向比较表明,自我报告的奖励敏感性与VS随时间的激活特别相关。这些结果共同推进了我们对整个青春期奖励处理背后大脑回路的理解。