Adolescent Brain Development and Medical Decision-making

Coming of age: devising legislation for adolescent medical decision-making.

The Teenage Brain: Peer Influences on Adolescent Decision Making

Research efforts to account for elevated risk behavior among adolescents have arrived at an exciting new stage. Moving beyond laboratory studies of age differences in risk perception and reasoning, new approaches have shifted their focus to the influence of social and emotional factors on adolescent decision making. We review recent research suggesting that adolescent risk-taking propensity der...

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...

Assessing adolescent decision-making competence

Behavioral decision research offers a general approach to studying cognitive aspects of decision making, as well as a platform for studying their interplay with social and affective processes. Applied to any decision, behavioral decision research involves three interrelated tasks: (a) normative analysis, identifying the expected impacts of possible choices; (b) descriptive study, characterizing...

Medical Decision Making using

Bayesian Belief Networks (bbns) play a relevant role in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence in Medicine and they have been successfully applied to a wide variety of medical domains. An appealing character of bbns is that they easily extend into a complete decision-theoretic formalism known as Innuence Diagrams (ids). Unfortunately, bbns and ids require a large amount of information that is not al...