Medial prefrontal cortical thinning mediates shifts in other-regarding preferences during adolescence

Abstract Adolescence is a time of significant cortical changes in the ‘social brain’, a set of brain regions involved in sophisticated social inference. However, there is limited evidence linking the structural changes in social brain to development of social behavior. The present study investigated...

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Main Authors: Sunhae Sul, Berna Güroğlu, Eveline A. Crone, Luke J. Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08692-6