The Brain's Changes During Adolescence

Welcome everyone to the adolescent brain! Have you ever wondered why your older sister or your best friend is happy one minute then angry the next? Do not fret, it is a normal thing that happens to all of us once we become teenagers. a normal thing with puberty. Mood swings are things all teenagers undergo through because the hormones are in control of their body while you go through puberty. This causes the emotions to be out of whack with the rest of their body!They are all over the place; going up and down, side to side. Wanna learn more? Well then get your popcorn, get comfy, and let us dive into the truth of the adolescent brain. The adolescent brain is a rather young brain; it is not completely developed. There are a couple different

For a long time, teenagers have been known for being foolish and not thinking through their actions. People once thought it was simply because of their personalities, but new research has proved that it’s actually because their brains aren’t fully developed. There are advantages and disadvantages to the teenage brain. A few disadvantages to the teenage brain is that the prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed yet and they are wired to be independent. Some advantages to the teenage brain is: the brain is easy to reshape or mold into learning new things and they are more open to new, different things. Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible for their actions. Without the help of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse, they wouldn’t have been able to

List and describe the three most important structural changes in the brain during adolescence and how they change

I choose Chapter 15, Adolescence: Cognitive Development as my project topic. As I was working on my project I used the multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner. In my presentation I used spatial learning by creating my project as a powerpoint with all the definitions along with pictures to help explain the definitions. For example, with my slide on high school and middle school I incorporated pictures from the schools that I attended. THe next intelligence I used with my slides was the logical/mathematical and naturalistic learning. I used the mathematical intelligence with the statistics I included on my cyberbullying slide. By looking up statistics and comparing them it helped me see how much of an impact bullying is having on kids in school today. I used naturalistic intelligence by categorizing all my slides to match up with the definitions and have the correct flow to connect to the next topic. By categorizing these slides together I was able to create a flow to my project to present it in an orderly manner. A intelligence I used while organizing my project was musical, as I put together my slides and while writing this paper I was listening to Beethoven. When I

Sarah Spinks, in her article “Adolescent Brains are Works in Progress” explains about the critical changes in teenage brain and its effects on them. It reports the studies by various scientist regarding the development of prefrontal cortex, corpus callosum, and cerebellum of the brain along with the phenomenon of pruning.

Take this time to conceptualize the differences between the average adolescent brain and the adult brain. Perhaps the most logical thought that may come to mind is that adolescents are immature. Teenagers usually tend to shun a lot of the most important people around them, live within their own fantasies, and become oblivious to the realities that exist around them. Whereas when you think of adults, you imagine a sophisticated human being who is able to make  decisions for oneself, and even the word adult itself means “grown up and mature”. In Shakespeare 's famous play, Romeo and Juliet, even if they tried to be mature, the seed of Romeo and Juliet 's troubles that occurred during their forbidden love was their lack of immaturity they possessed and the poor decisions they acted upon due to the undeveloped mindset they held; however, as well as the teenagers, at times, the adults, including the most holy and trusted ones, lacked of wisdom, and they too, committed serious mistakes.

The brain's white matter, prefrontal cortext responds to judgment and impulse control is different in adolescent than adult. During adolescent, teenagers can easily be more frustrated and upset for no reason, while the adult are calmer with the emotion. This also true because when I was in my teenage years, if things wasn't going according to what I want, I would be upset with everything around me.

The article “Inside the Teen Brain” by Marty Woltner, states that recent information on the human brain gives new information to parents and explains the behavior of teens. Even though the brain is almost physically mature the grey matter in the thinking part of the brain( Pre-Frontal Cortex).Without benefit of higher level processing in the prefrontal cortex may result in risky behavior. Each interaction with a teenager will affect development of his or her brain, helping the teen make connections in the prefrontal cortex. During this time of heavy construction. As parents decide how to more efficiently communicate with the developing teen brain, it’s vital to also consider who a child actually is, and what kind of parenting styles the child

It is as if the brain has matured into the new stage of life. The most altered brain regions are the same ones that activate

Surviving the Teenage Brain was about the development and curiousness of adolescent’s brains in adapting, decision-making, and addictions. Adolescents are extremely curious. This allows them to be able to adapt much quicker, absorb new information, and push the barriers. The reason for this curiosity at this stage in life is the brain has now grown to its full size and adolescents are just on the verge of learning how to use it. Biologically the brain is now at its total mass. Adolescents are constantly learning to use their full brain, which leads to such curiosity. This makes adolescents curiousness their greatest characteristic. It allows for questioning such as “What if I do this? What if I do that?” and also allows them to be in the very

The teenage brain is the result of child’s brain undergoing a slow yet steady metamorphosis, thus creating major differences in the way the brain thinks and reacts compared to its former and future self. Teens are often known to be chaotic, hectic and moody but not without reason. Once the young brain begins releasing large quantities of new hormones, also known as puberty, it stops acting, or rather thinking, like its former self. These hormones change the way teenagers react and often make them impulsive. As Dr. Peter Nieman put it: “Adolescents show adult levels of intellectual capability earlier than they show evidence of adult levels of impulse control…” The lack of restraint is one of the many differences between the thought processes

PBS’ “Inside the Teenage Brain,” contains some cogent rationales, such as how teenagers need an abundance of sleep in order to perform well, yet it also was offensive. I cannot help thinking there are diminutive cameras hiding in my house, recording my sister and I being stereotypical adolescents. Every time I have talked since watching the video, I feel like my brain has manipulated me and I am falling into what teenagers are supposed to say, as opposed to what I am actually supposed to say and think. An improvement PBS could have made would be to track adolescent brain behavior over the course of teenage years, not only young teenagers. I am curious to know how my brain is now, compared to my brain was when I was thirteen or fifteen. The

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)

Another area of the brain responsible for assisting in the completion of our task is the premotor cortex also lying in the frontal lobe just anterior to the primary motor cortex. Although this area