Commentary: Risk taking, impulsivity, and externalizing problems in adolescent development - commentary on Crone et al. 2016

This commentary supports several important themes. These include the value in seeing risk taking as multicomponential (affective vs. deliberative risk taking), the importance of evaluating risk taking in relation to outcome, the necessity of expanding the brain networks studied in relation to risk taking, and the crucial interactions of risk taking with psychosocial context. We argue that more careful distinctions are needed between risk taking and different forms of impulsivity. Clearer differentiation of these constructs and their study together in brain imaging studies will clarify components of adolescent development and risk for externalizing behavior problems. Read the full article at doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12502 © 2016 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.