Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults.
Most teenage fears subside with age, a change that may reflect brain maturation in the service of refined fear learning. Whereas adults clearly demarcate safe situations from real dangers, attenuating fear to the former but not the latter, adolescents' immaturity in prefrontal cortex function m...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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