Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence
The biological, environmental, and psychosocial changes that occur in adolescence engender an increase in risk taking often linked to the high rates of motor vehicle crashes amongst young drivers. Most U.S. adolescents suffer from poor sleep, which is known to exacerbate the risk of driving crashes;...
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doaj-fa35e1184d974e1ca461507548b7f71a2020-11-25T02:47:40ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932020-06-0143Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescenceAmanda E. Baker0Sarah M. Tashjian1Diane Goldenberg2Adriana Galván3Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 502 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States; Corresponding Author at: 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States.The biological, environmental, and psychosocial changes that occur in adolescence engender an increase in risk taking often linked to the high rates of motor vehicle crashes amongst young drivers. Most U.S. adolescents suffer from poor sleep, which is known to exacerbate the risk of driving crashes; however, research has yet to uncover a neurobiological link between sleep and risky driving in adolescence. Here, we examined potential moderators of the sleep-risk relation in fifty-six adolescents (14–18y/o) as they completed a driving task during fMRI. While poor sleep was associated with increased risky driving (i.e., running more yellow lights), good sleep emerged as a novel buffer against risky driving in lower sensation-seeking adolescents. Neural activity in the ventral striatum (VS), a key node of the risk-taking circuit, also moderated the sleep-risk association: sleep was related to risk-taking in individuals demonstrating high, but not low, VS response during risky decision-making, suggesting that reward-related neural response may underly the connection between sleep and risk-taking in adolescence. This study sheds light on the risk of driving crashes in youth by highlighting sleep as both an exacerbator and a buffer of risky driving in adolescence. Taken together, these results underscore the importance of improving adolescent sleep.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300384AdolescenceRisk takingfMRISleepVentral striatum |
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Amanda E. Baker Sarah M. Tashjian Diane Goldenberg Adriana Galván Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Adolescence Risk taking fMRI Sleep Ventral striatum |
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Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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Neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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neural activity moderates the association between sleep and risky driving behaviors in adolescence |
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
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1878-9293 |
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2020-06-01 |
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The biological, environmental, and psychosocial changes that occur in adolescence engender an increase in risk taking often linked to the high rates of motor vehicle crashes amongst young drivers. Most U.S. adolescents suffer from poor sleep, which is known to exacerbate the risk of driving crashes; however, research has yet to uncover a neurobiological link between sleep and risky driving in adolescence. Here, we examined potential moderators of the sleep-risk relation in fifty-six adolescents (14–18y/o) as they completed a driving task during fMRI. While poor sleep was associated with increased risky driving (i.e., running more yellow lights), good sleep emerged as a novel buffer against risky driving in lower sensation-seeking adolescents. Neural activity in the ventral striatum (VS), a key node of the risk-taking circuit, also moderated the sleep-risk association: sleep was related to risk-taking in individuals demonstrating high, but not low, VS response during risky decision-making, suggesting that reward-related neural response may underly the connection between sleep and risk-taking in adolescence. This study sheds light on the risk of driving crashes in youth by highlighting sleep as both an exacerbator and a buffer of risky driving in adolescence. Taken together, these results underscore the importance of improving adolescent sleep. |
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Adolescence Risk taking fMRI Sleep Ventral striatum |
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