Reynolds Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2025

Risk and resilience in adolescent decision-making

Adolescents take more risks than adults do, contributing to the conventional framing of this period as one of great vulnerability. Surprisingly however, teenagers who engage in some degree of risk-taking exhibit more favorable psychosocial trajectories compared to those who avoid risks. This raises the intriguing possibility that taking risks during adolescence may, in fact, have enduring positive effects on adult behavior. The core objective of this proposal is to unravel the neural basis of how taking risks during adolescence can drive behavioral and neural circuit adaptations that promote resilience in adulthood. Risk-taking behavior can be studied in the context of decision making,…

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