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Chunk #23 — Insights from Neuroimaging — Possible explanations for the discrepancies — What is adolescence?

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Adolescent development of the reward system.
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and late-adolescence is only developmentally informative if age is included as a regressor to examine individual variability across development. Instead, all studies described above group the “adolescent” sample and compare it to the comparison group, without taking advantage of the developmental distribution. By the time the study is whittled down to a summary, the generalized message neglects to highlight the significant variability in age.