Leah M Truckenbrod

Sep 12, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Leah M Truckenbrod |Emmanuel Darcq |Giovanni Hernández |Lauren Reynolds

1. IntroductionThere are a range of psychiatric disorders that are characterized by forms of altered risk-taking behavior. Although certain disorders, such as eating disorders or generalized anxiety disorder, are characterized by extreme risk aversion, or avoidance of activities that may be associated with potential risk (Lorian and Grisham, 2011; Charpentier et al., 2017; Bernardoni et al., 2020), other psychiatric conditions are associated with increased risk-taking behavior.