A heightened propensity for risk-taking and poor decision-making underlies the peak
morbidity and mortality rates reported during adolescence. Delayed maturation of cortical …

Objective: Offspring of parents with major depressive disorder face a threefold higher risk for
major depression than offspring without such family histories. Although major depression is …

Background. We measured psychopathic traits in boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
selected for difficult and aggressive behaviour. We asked (i) whether psychopathic …

The arrival of the Journal's 175th anniversary occurs at a time of recent advances in
research, providing an ideal opportunity to present a neurodevelopmental roadmap for …

There has been a long controversy concerning whether the amygdala's response to emotional
stimuli is automatic or dependent on attentional load. Using magnoencephalography and …

Background Men with antisocial personality disorder show lifelong abnormalities in adaptive
decision making guided by the weighing up of reward and punishment information. Among …

Background Callous-unemotional (CU) traits represent the affective features of psychopathy
used to delineate youth at high risk for externalizing pathology. The genetic etiology CU …

Objective Youth with disruptive behavior disorders (DBD), including conduct disorder (CD)
and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), have difficulties in reinforcement-based decision …

Importance Childhood maltreatment is associated with serious developmental consequences
that may be different depending on the form of maltreatment. However, relatively little …

Using behavioral and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response indices through
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the current study investigated whether youths …