Neurobiological Models of Risky Decision-Making and Adolescent Substance Use

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie F. Reyna
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Adolescent Substance

Risky decision-making in individuals with substance use disorder: A meta-analysis and meta-regression review

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (7) ◽  
pp. 1893-1908
Author(s):  
Shujuan Chen ◽  
Pingyuan Yang ◽  
Tianzhen Chen ◽  
Hang Su ◽  
Haifeng Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Meta Regression

Exposure to maternal depressive symptoms and growth in adolescent substance use: The mediating role of delay discounting

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Julia W. Felton ◽  
Anahí Collado ◽  
Morgan Cinader ◽  
Carl W. Lejuez ◽  
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Delay Discounting ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Maternal Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal

Abstract Maternal depression is associated with instability within the family environment and increases in offspring substance use across adolescence. Rates of delay discounting, or the tendency to select smaller rewards that are immediately available relative to larger, but delayed rewards, are also associated with steeper increases in substance use among youth. Moreover, recent research suggests that early unstable environments may reinforce youths’ propensity towards opportunistic decision making and delay discounting specifically. The current prospective, longitudinal study examined links between maternal depressive symptoms, adolescent delay discounting, and subsequent substance use. Participants included 247 adolescents and their mothers who were assessed annually over a 6-year period (from ages 13 to 19 years). Results supported a small but significant mediation effect. Specifically, maternal depressive symptoms predicted increases in adolescent delay discounting, which, in turn, predicted steeper increases in adolescent substance use over time. Thus, youth decision making may represent a mechanism linking maternal depression and adolescent risk behaviors. Findings indicate the potential for interventions targeting parental psychopathology to prevent subsequent adolescent substance use.

scholarly journals Time-Based Prospective Memory Predicts Engagement in Risk Behaviors Among Substance Users: Results From Clinical and Nonclinical Samples

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Weinborn ◽  
Jonson Moyle ◽  
Romola S. Bucks ◽  
Werner Stritzke ◽  
Angela Leighton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Two Samples

AbstractDeficits in prospective memory (PM; i.e., enacting previously learned actions at the right occasion) and risky decision-making (i.e., making choices with a high chance of undesirable/dangerous outcomes) are both common among individuals with substance use disorders (SUD). Previous research has raised the possibility of a specific relationship between PM and risk-taking, and the present study aimed to systematically study if PM provides unique variance in the prediction of risky decision-making. Two samples were included: (1) a group of 45 individuals with SUD currently in treatment, and (2) a nonclinical group of 59 university students with high-risk drinking and/or substance use. Regression analyses indicated that time-based, but not event-based, PM predicted increased risky behavior (e.g., risky sexual practices and criminal behaviors) in both groups after controlling for demographic, psychiatric, and substance use variables, as well as other neuropsychological functions. The current findings contribute to the growing literature supporting the role of PM as a predictor of everyday functioning, and suggest that cognitive rehabilitation may be an important avenue of research as an adjunct to traditional substance use treatment, particularly in addressing the potential adverse effects of PM deficits in the implementation of treatment-related homework activities and risk management strategies. (JINS, 2013, 19, 1–11)

Blunted feedback processing during risky decision making in adolescents with a parental history of substance use disorders

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1119-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja S. Euser ◽  
Kirstin Greaves-Lord ◽  
Michael J. Crowley ◽  
Brittany E. Evans ◽  
Anja C. Huizink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Feedback Processing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Positive And Negative Feedback

AbstractRisky decision making, a hallmark phenotype of substance use disorders (SUD), is thought to be associated with deficient feedback processing. Whether these aberrations are present prior to SUD onset or reflect merely a consequence of chronic substance use on the brain remains unclear. The present study investigated whether blunted feedback processing during risky decision making reflects a biological predisposition to SUD. We assessed event-related potentials elicited by positive and negative feedback during performance of a modified version of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) among high-risk adolescents with a parental history of SUD (HR; n = 61) and normal-risk controls (NR; n = 91). HR males made significantly more risky and faster decisions during the BART than did NR controls. Moreover, HR adolescents showed significantly reduced P300 amplitudes in response to both positive and negative feedback as compared to NR controls. These differences were not secondary to prolonged substance use exposure. Results are discussed in terms of feedback-specific processes. Reduced P300 amplitudes in the BART may reflect poor processing of feedback at the level of overall salience, which may keep people from effectively predicting the probability of future gains and losses. Though conclusions are tentative, blunted feedback processing during risky decision making may represent a promising endophenotypic vulnerability marker for SUD.

scholarly journals Neural activation during risky decision-making in youth at high risk for substance use disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 233 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Hulvershorn ◽  
Tom A. Hummer ◽  
Rena Fukunaga ◽  
Ellen Leibenluft ◽  
Peter Finn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision

scholarly journals Risky decision making in a laboratory driving task is associated with health risk behaviors during late adolescence but not adulthood

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungmeen Kim-Spoon ◽  
Rachel Kahn ◽  
Kirby Deater-Deckard ◽  
Pearl Chiu ◽  
Laurence Steinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision

Adolescence is characterized by increasing incidence of health risk behaviors, including experimentation with drugs and alcohol. To fill the gap in our understanding of the associations between risky decision-making and health risk behaviors, we investigated associations between laboratory-based risky decision-making using the Stoplight task and self-reported health risk behaviors. Given that there has been no examination of potential age differences in the associations between risky decision-making and health risk behaviors, we also examined whether the association of risky decision-making with health risk behaviors is consistent across adolescence and adulthood using two-group structural equation modeling (SEM). The results indicated significant differences across the two age groups: adolescents (17–20 year olds) who took more risks on the Stoplight task reported greater frequency and earlier onset of substance use, whereas stoplight performance was not associated with substance use frequency or onset among adults (31–61 year olds). Our findings suggest that a laboratory-based measure of risky decision-making is significantly related to health risk behaviors among adolescents but not among adults.

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