title: Commentary: Risk taking, impulsivity, and externalizing problems in adolescent development--commentary on Crone et al. 2016.
abstract: This commentary supports several important themes. These include the value in seeing risk taking as multicomponential (affective vs. deliberative risk taking), the importance of evaluating risk taking in relation to outcome, the necessity of expanding the brain networks studied in relation to risk taking, and the crucial interactions of risk taking with psychosocial context. We argue that more careful distinctions are needed between risk taking and different forms of impulsivity. Clearer differentiation of these constructs and their study together in brain imaging studies will clarify components of adolescent development and risk for externalizing behavior problems.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Joel T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Nigg
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Bonnie J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Nagel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D001921:Brain; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D012306:Risk; D012309:Risk-Taking
keywords: Risk taking; impulsivity