The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

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Your Teen talks with the author of The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults.

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Her prestigious academic credentials and ongoing work as a lecturer across University College London have equipped her with the necessary skills to understand neuroscience and psychological science. It’s easy to get frustrated when you can’t get your point across without letting your emotions get the better of you. She also shows that the brain’s levels of white and grey matter continue to shift long after our teen years, meaning the period of human adolescence could be considered to last until our 20s and 30s. Well, teenagers do grow out of it, but I felt we were dismissing what they were doing during the teenage years. Because the limbic system is more developed than the pre-frontal cortex during adolescence, this means when they feel things, a teenager might react to it more than a typical adult.Teenagers tend to challenge boundaries, sleep more, and have the mood changes we expect at this age. It’s a period of huge opportunity, and this suggests that you can really change your destiny with respect to how you function at school if you get some attention during this time. A visionary and a guide, Siegel knows that if we treat teenagers with the respect and understanding they deserve, they are more likely to live up to their greatest capacities.

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Teenagers are still at a point where they are very self absorbed, not in a conceited way, but it’s a “me, me, me” time. The teens are an age of self-discovery and novelty-seeking behaviour, and it’s natural that they will start to cut ties.Because teenagers have more synapses—and more synaptic plasticity—they need less exposure to drugs and alcohol to have more of an effect on the brain. The decision-making part of the teenage brain is far from fully developed, meaning they are making big decisions while their brains are still rapidly changing. This book not only has all of these qualities, but also has something to offer every reader – whether you are a teenager, parent of a teenager, or just interested in understanding your former teenage self.

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This explains why teens can tend to be forgetful and make decisions in the moment – sometimes leading to risky choices. They also praised Blakemore for examining how stressful experiences during her formative years may have shaped her own development; she grew up under police protection because her father, the scientist Sir Colin Blakemore, received death threats from animal rights groups and was once targeted by a mail bomber.The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Dr Tina Payne Bryson and Dr Daniel Siegel.

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Books about mental health for 13 to 18 year olds, with advice and information about issues like anxiety, stress and OCD, bullying and exams. But the approach/philosophy of the book is about a) being positive about the teen years and b) making the book easy-to-digest for parents.They also highlight the importance of individual and learning differences, mental health, and a growth mindset, as part of the over-arching theoretical framework of the book. But experiencing heightened emotional reactions in adolescence can also be linked to the way teenagers’ brains are wired. Uniquely, the authors provide a manual with clear strategies for what to do to support teens based on findings from neuroscience and psychology. From puberty to the end of the teens, the circadian clock is actually programming them to go to sleep and wake up around three to four hours later than adults.