The primary structure involved in executive functions and impulse control is one of the last cortical structures to mature

Effect sizes are presented as partial eta-squared , and interpretations of statistical significance were made if p<0.05. We used Pearson correlations to examine associations between risk-taking, demographic, and neuropsychological variables. As an exploratory analysis, we performed hierarchical multiple regressions to examine whether BART performance predicted past 18-month substance use, as described below. Distributions of substance…