Adolescent decision-making has been characterized as risky, and a heightened reward sensitivity may be one of the aspects contributing to riskier choice-behavior. Previous studies have targeted reward-sensitivity in adolescence and the neurobiological mechanisms of reward processing in the adolescent brain. In recent examples, researchers aim to disentangle the contributions of risk- and reward-sensitivity to adolescent risk-taking. Here, we discuss recent findings of adolescent's risk preferences and the associated neural mechanisms. We highlight potential frameworks that target individual differences in risk preferences in an effort to understand adolescent risk-taking, and with an ultimate goal of leveraging undesirable levels of risk taking.

青少年的决策被认为是有风险的，而更高的奖励敏感性可能是导致风险更高的选择行为的一个方面。以前的研究针对青春期的奖励敏感性和青少年大脑奖励处理的神经生物学机制。在最近的例子中，研究人员旨在弄清风险和奖励敏感性对青少年冒险行为的影响。在这里，我们讨论了青少年风险偏好和相关神经机制的最新发现。我们强调了潜在的框架，这些框架针对风险偏好中的个体差异，以努力了解青少年的冒险行为，最终目标是利用不良的冒险水平。