Summary Of The Teen Brain: Under Construction

The brain has the function of making their body work and help with the teens brain daily life. The gray matter is where nerves are located. They are affect the way the person acts. The gray matter is where the nerves are located . One nerve is made up of neurons-a nerve cell-The neuron is made up of dendrites, axons and nucleus . The dendrites receive signals from axon terminals and this is a synapses. As a teen grows the brain starts pruning its synapses. With this the brain is taking out instructions the brain can already do or already knows. This is making room for new ideas. The brain secretes many hormones and neurotransmitters. A well known and used neurotransmitter is dopamine. Dopamine gives the brain a faster production time to make decision.

Paul Thompson in the article,Startling Finds on Teenage Brains,claims that over the last several years,as school shootings have seemed to occur with disturbing frequency. Thompson supports his claim by first describes fourteen year old Nathaniel Brazill´s case because he shot middle-school teacher Grunow. He then explains his and other people's research that is about the thoughts of teens like how he was talking about how he was working on mapping the patterns of brain growth.Lastly, the author explores into the fact that teens have a massive loss of brain tissue. Thompson´s purpose is to inform the reader the thoughts that teenagers have and how when people are teens they have the most brain tissue loss so that they themselves know the thoughts

Many juveniles have personal problems but that does not mean they have to commit a wicked crime to feel better, they need to seek professional help. As well as adults, juveniles need to be punished the same way because if they are not punished the same, they may not actually regret the crime they committed.Seeking professional help may help theses juveniles suppress these feelings they are feeling and eventually help them in the long run.It is fair to sentence teens the same as adults for the same crime;If juveniles have the capability of committing a crime then they should be sentenced the same as an adult.

Author, Maia Szalavitz in her article, Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk, notes that teens are reckless and do things without looking at the consequences first. She supports her claim by first illustrating an example from a research that states teens overestimate risks like sex and drug use. Then Szalavitz quotes Tymula, postal doctoral student at New York University, that teens are likely to engage more in known risks than they doin the known risks. Finally, she cites Valerie Reyna, professor of human development and psychology at Cornell University, on how the teen brain takes twice the amount of time on quantitative reasoning since their prefrontal cortex hasn’t developed fully. Szalavitz’s purpose is to recommend we change our teaching

The program “Inside the Teenage Brain” on Frontline PBS contained some very interesting points. In the beginning I felt like the videos did not relate to me very well because most of the teens they were dealing with seemed to be disobedient children. However; as I continued watching and I found that many of the topics in the program did apply to me. One of the parents being interviewed stated, “I find that the quickest way to get shut out is to ask questions about things that you aren’t welcome to know…” I thought this was a very factual statement because I have seen this exact thing happen with several of my friends. I have noticed parents attempting to uphold a conversation but the child automatically gets angry and finds themself frustrated

The book The Teenage Brain is written by a neuroscientist named Frances E. Jensen (MD) who doubles a single mother to two boys. Being both a mother and brain expert, her curiosity while raising her sons led her to look further into the growth and development of adolescent brains. Why are teens (in most cases) more emotional than adults? How does the brain physically change between the ages 12 and 25? What are external factors that aid or stunt brain development?

Most people think that the brain is fully developed at twenty five this can be wrong because most teens are mature in high school. This fact can be true but not everyone is the same, especially with girls they mature faster than boys. By proving to be mature some people do not think paying bills, attending college, and holding a job states that you are responsible you can still make mistakes. In my life, my parents do not think we are capable of being responsible because most teens do not do things on their own. Teenagers think the age of responsibility is just a number. The age of adulthood in our country should be determined by the ability of a person to prove that they are mature by paying bills, holding a job or attending college instead of by arbitrary laws and set

Im sure you’ve heard a teenager say “I only get _hours of sleep and i'm fine” However, in the book The Teenage Brain, Frances Jensen shares her research about how many hours of sleep a teenager should get at night and the main causes of sleep deprivation. Teenagers need to be informed that Sleep deprivation among all ages can have a major impact on the actions and lives of people especially teenagers because their brains are developing at such a fast pace. This finding challenges the belief that it’s only a short term effect, like you’ll only be affected the morning ahead. As a result that's why most teenagers grow up to have long term problems or are always stressed.

In Daphne case one night, Daphne and Chris met up with Michael, a 44-year-old man with a long history of alcohol problems. After a night of drinking, a fight broke out and Michael was stabbed, his throat cut, and his body dumped in the pond. Police searched the area and found Michaels slashed and stabbed body in the water; he had been disemboweled by Chris and Daphne in an attempt to sink the body. Later Chris testifies, claiming that Daphne instigated the fight and egged him on, taunting him that he was too scared to kill someone. Chris says that when she was drunk, Daphne often talked of killing an adult because she hated older people, especially her parents. Daphne’s parents claim that although she has been a burden with her mood swings and volatile behavior, she is still a child and can be helped with

Paper goal: Making brain research literature more actionable for frontline child welfare staff, adults and caregivers who work with older youth and young people themselves.

For many years it was believed that the brain stopped developing within the first few years of life but it is now known that the brain continues to develop through adolescence. Scientists were able to make this discovery by studying the brain through MRIs. They have determined that adolescence is a crucial and sensitive time for growth in humans and that the environments of adolescents determines their functions and mental state for adulthood. This information is important to teaching and parenting which both occur during adolescence. It also is able to help explain the way that adolescents act during this stage in their life.

Research explains why teens sometimes a “bad” behavior. The teen brain is more active and dynamic than thought before. The teens prefrontal cortex is still not fully developed. Information is passed through the prefrontal cortex without filter. The brain still has to learn how to react to inappropriate behavior. Each interaction impacts the development of the teens brain. Also the parents communication with the teen verbally and physically can mentally impact the teen. It’s not just the outside interactions that can mess with the teens brain. The teens health or emotions can also mess with the development of their brain. It's not just bad things that impact the brain

(5) What changes take place in the brain during adolescence? The development of the brain occurs in bottom-up, top-down, sequence with sensory, appetitive, sexual, sensation-seeking and risk taking brain linkages maturing first, and higher-level brain linkages as self control, planning, and reasoning maturing later(Santrock, 2013). During the adolesent stage, the corpus collosum thickens, increasing the ability to process information, the prefrontal cortex, involved in reasoning and decision making continues to develop through ages 18 -25. (Santrock, 2013) the limbic system, which is involved with emotions, however, matures faster and is fully developed in early adolesence. During this time, there is also increased focal activation, linked to the prefrontal cortex.(santrock, 2013)

One reason a teen expresses anger different from adult is because they use different parts of their brains. Teenagers rely more on the Amygdala whereas adults use the frontal cortex. Each individual responds differently to situations. (Phillips, Sherre Florence.(2 The Teen Brain. New York: Chelsea House, 2007) The Amygdala is the emotional center of brain for activating a physiological response, it grows during childhood and adolescence. Since the prefrontal cortex balances our emotions, adolescents react more emotionally to situations because they can’t sustain their emotions. The Amygdala alerts people to feel emotions and to perceive them. (Lakshmi Bangalore. (2010). Brain Development. New York: Infobase publishing.) Teenagers have

Adolescence is a critical time in life. It is during this time that an individual is approaching the end of puberty and the beginning of the journey of fulfilling a secure and independent role within society (Blackmore, 2012). Many factors can influence brain development in this stage of life. In the United States, there are an estimated 11,000,000 African American adolescents (Barrow, Armstrong, Vargo, & Boothroyd, 2007). Many African American’s live in poverty, facing discrepancies and difficulties with education, healthcare, and developing a socio-economic status compared to other populations in the United States (Barrow, Armstrong, Vargo, & Boothroyd, 2007). The limitations placed on adolescent African Americans, the restricted social