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  • Study links parental depression to brain changes and risk-taking in adolescents

    May 11, 2016 9:30 am by Sarah BanducciResearch
    professor Eva Telzer and graduate student Yang Qu. Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch

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    • professor Eva Telzer and graduate student Yang Qu. Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch

    While previous research has found associations between clinically depressed parents and their teenagers’ risk taking, the new study is the first to find corresponding changes in the adolescents’ brains.