Citation

Sully K, Sonuga-Barke EJ, Savage J, Fairchild G. Dev. Neuropsychol. 2016; 41(1-2): 93-106.

Affiliation

Academic Unit of Psychology , University of Southampton , Southampton , United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/87565641.2016.1145223

PMID

27031280

Abstract

Previous studies have demonstrated increased risk-taking in adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) compared with typically developing controls. Increased risk-taking may partly mediate the pathway from genetic or environmental risk to CD. We investigated the familial basis of risk-taking by examining whether the unaffected relatives of CD probands (n = 22) showed heightened risk-taking in a gambling task, in common with affected probands (n = 44). Adolescents with CD were more likely to select risky options than the typically developing controls (n = 37) and unaffected relatives. Our findings confirm the association between CD and increased risk-taking, but suggest that this decision-making style may not have a familial basis.

Language: en