New book highlights continued brain development throughout adolescence, even into our 20s

By SharpBrains | May 23, 2018

_____ Neu­ro­sci­en­tist Probes Myths About the Teenage Brain (Edu­ca­tion Week): “We often think ear­ly child­hood is this dra­mat­ic win­dow of learn­ing and devel­op­ment in the brain, and you’re high­light­ing ado­les­cence as a dif­fer­ent kind of win­dow. Can you talk a lit­tle bit about that? I was told when I was an under­grad­u­ate that the human brain pretty…

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Brain scan study finds links between adolescent brain development and mental health disorders

By SharpBrains | August 3, 2016

Scans reveal how teenage brain devel­ops (BBC News): “The team from Cam­bridge’s depart­ment of psy­chi­a­try scanned the brains of 300 peo­ple between the ages of 14 and 24. While the areas asso­ci­at­ed with the basic func­tion­ing of the body such as vision, hear­ing and move­ment are ful­ly devel­oped by ado­les­cence, the areas asso­ci­at­ed with com­plex thought…

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Top 10 Resources to Better Understand the Teenage Brain— Brain Health Series Part 2

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 21, 2010 |

Ado­les­cence can be a chal­lenging time for both the ado­les­cents and the sig­nif­i­cant adults (par­ents, teach­ers) in their lives. Teenagers them­selves do not always under­stand why they behave the way they do. Why is it dif­fi­cult being a teenag­er or inter­act­ing with one? Why do teenagers have these typ­i­cal behav­iors: Risk-tak­ing, strange sleep­ing habits, addic­tion, impul­siv­i­ty, etc.?…

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