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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2016 Jan;20(Suppl 1):S97–108. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1155-2

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Working model of adolescent sexual decision-making. a Illustration of the neural circuitry in this system. Areas include the ventral tegmental area (VTA); striatum including the nucleus accumbens (NAcc); prefrontal cortex (PFC) including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), superior frontal gyrus (SFG); limbic system including the amygdala (AMYG), hippocampus (HIPP), and hypothamalus (HYP); insula and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), b Pictoral representation of these neural centers