Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Amount

$229,473.00

Award Date

9/23/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Adolescence is a time of heightened vulnerability for risk taking behavior and poor decision making that can give rise to substance use and externalizing behavior. Emerging evidence from developmental neuroscience suggests that risk taking behavior increa