{"id":21342,"date":"2017-11-28T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/teenage-brains-not-wired-for-high-stakes\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:23:02","slug":"teenage-brains-not-wired-for-high-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/teenage-brains-not-wired-for-high-stakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage brains &#8216;not wired for high stakes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brain immaturity during adolescence could explain why some teenagers fail to respond to incentives such as cash rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Adults are good at putting maximum mental effort into the things that matter most.<\/p>\n<p>But, brain circuits are still developing in teenagers, making it harder for them to tackle meeting their goals, say US psychologists.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to improve student grades with money have had mixed success.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Communications<\/a>, shows that brain connectivity continues to develop throughout adolescence, affecting teenagers&#039; ability to perform when the stakes are high. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-13425236\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Teenagers &#039;wired to be reckless&#039;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-36887224\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Scans reveal how teenage brain develops<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the study, researchers at Harvard University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures brain activity by detecting changes linked to blood flow.<\/p>\n<p>Young people, aged 13 to 20, were brain scanned while they played a computer game. <\/p>\n<p>They played for high stakes, when they could earn $1 for correct responses or lose 50 cents for incorrect responses, and for low stakes, when they could earn 20 cents or lose 10 cents. <\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Katie Insel said older adolescents were able to boost their performance when the stakes were high.<\/p>\n<p>However, younger adolescents performed similarly for low and high stakes outcomes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#039;&#039;These findings demonstrate that brain connectivity continues to develop across adolescence,&#039;&#039; she told BBC News. <\/p>\n<p>&#039;&#039;This means that as teens age, they become better at adjusting brain connectivity across motivational contexts, which in turn allows them to do better when working towards a high-value goal.&#039;&#039;<\/p>\n<p>Past studies have shown that connections between different parts of the growing brain take years to develop.<\/p>\n<p>The last bit of the brain to reach full maturity is the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for things like planning, controlling emotions and empathy.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Helen on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hbriggs?lang=en-gb\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-42152392\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/175x175bb-155.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/h5>\n<p> [contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain immaturity during adolescence could explain why some t..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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