G148 The relationship between pubertal status and neural activity during risky decision-making in male adolescents using fmri

During adolescence, risk-taking emerges as an important behaviour. One prominent theory proposes that this increased risk-taking results from a dissociation in the maturational timing of the brain regions involved in reward processing and cognitive control. It is hypothesised that the regions involved in reward processing, particularly the limbic system, mature relatively early in adolescence, in tandem with pubertal maturation. In...