Summary Of Inside The Teen Brain By Marty Wolner

Others who don’t agree with with the idea that teens are incapable of making good decisions may say teenagers actually overestimate risks. In “Why the Teen Brain Is Drawn to Risk”, a researcher named Valerie Reyna’s data,” has shown how excessively teens tend to overestimate the risk: for example when asked about the risk of AIDS in one study, adolescents estimated that a teenage girl who is sexually active has a 60% chance of contracting HIV. (The actual odds are miniscule for most Americans.)” (qtd. in Szalavitz); basically saying teens overestimate risks they are aware of. While this data has scientific approval, a weakness in this statement is that other data has proven that adolescents engage in risky behavior when a risk is unknown (Szalavitz).

Teens brains also make it so the teens want to try riskier behavior and dont care if they hurt themselves in the process According to beatiful brains by David Hobbs, roughly from 15 to 25 brings peaks in all sorts of risky behaviors and ugly

Many people believe that some people are smart, and some people are not smart. However, in her book “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Raising Adolescents,” Frances Jensen explains, How does learning occur in the brain? Jensen states, “The more a piece of information is repeated or relearned, the stronger the neurons become, and the connection becomes like a well worn path through the woods. ”

It is proven that teenagers can tend to make more rash choices than adults. This is because the teenage mind is not as efficient as the adult mind. This is shown in the article by NPR “That’s because the nerve cells that connect teenagars frontal lobes with the rest of their brain are sluggish.” Teenage brains are also not fully developed yet, their development is lacking in the part of their brain that makes decisions. For example, they make a “rash” decision to marry after only knowing each other for 12 hours.

They are figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Their bodies and brains are constantly changing and developing. Their brain will not fully develop until their 20s and they are expected to lack some skills, such as decision making skills.The area in the brain that controls the decision making skills is the last to develop meaning teens have a reason to naturally lack in making decisions. “That’s because the nerve cells that connect teenagers’ frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don’t have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or “white matter” that adults have in this area. (Knox) This quote explains the frontal lobes and how they aren’t developed, and this is the reason for their flawed decision making skills. They do have some ability to make some quick and mature decisions, but not as much as an adult can. Shakespeare shows us this in Romeo and Juliet when Juliet says “ If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,” (II.II.143-144) Romeo had to leave and they weren’t ready to say goodbye, so on impulse, Juliet decided they should get married. Juliet gave no thought to this and was set on her decision, and it happened, they got married after knowing eachother for only 5

This leaves teens easily influenced by their environment and more prone to impulsive behavior, even without the impact of souped-up hormones and any genetic or family predispositions,”(1). They are saying teens act impulsively because their brains are still not complete. Even though this is true, that does not mean they can not be held responsible for their actions.

As a result, they often don’t consider the consequences of their actions as aacap.org explains, “...adolescents' brains work differently than adults when they make decisions or solve problems. Their actions are guided more by the emotional and reactive amygdala and less by the thoughtful, logical frontal cortex” (aacap.org) Without seeing the consequences of their actions, teenagers are bound to make poor decisions that adults otherwise wouldn’t

First of all brain studies show that teens brains have not fully developed. As people get older there brain begins to develop more. But as teens go through adolescence their brain undergoes extensive remodeling. The things that teens do are the things that they get good at. If your practice something you will remember it. If you don't do something for a while you will forget how to do it. Teens tend to take more risks when they are with their friends. The frontal cortex of the human brain doesn't fully develop until you are in your early to mid twenties( First article). Tho teens do score way better then kids around ten on brain development test, they do not score as good as many adults. As a result of this many parents say that their kids are not capable of choosing their partner. Others say that teens can make a good

Sixty two percent of adults believe that teenagers make rash, careless delicious because they do not think of the consequences of said actions. Adults think they are right about the previous statement because they have lived many years upon Earth, unlike teenagers, who have only lived from thirteen to nineteen years on this planet. Me, myself, strongly disagree with this statement. The reason behind my opinion, is that it does not matter how old one is, but how strong ones mental capability is, one's awareness of the fact that all actions have a reaction, and understand the fact that one has the power to change the world. First and foremost, teenagers have the capability to not be careless because one may have a strong mental

The article “Inside the Teenage Brain” by Marty Wolner states that recently, brain researchers have been able to do a great quantity of detailed studies on the human brain. Despite previous thoughts about the teenage brain, development of the brain through the teenage years is very dynamic. The teenage brain is still learning how to process certain information properly in the thinking part of the brain, so often teens may not process all the information necessary to make responsible decisions. Nevertheless, the teenage years can be very stressful for both parents and for teens. Getting through the teenage years can be difficult, but with the right amount of healthy communication, discipline and support the road ahead won’t be so rough. At this

For example, In the article Kids are Kids - Until they Commit Crimes by Marjie Lundstrom it states ¨they can't smoke, or drink, or go to R movies without the parents OK. It's why they don't vote. It is why they have curfews. Its why we fret over their internet access and fees about driving privileges¨(1, 3). They have curfews and rules for a reason. It is because they are not adults and should not be treated like one when they make a mistake. Girls reach the end of puberty around age 18, and boys at the age of 20. For example, in the article Startling Find on Teenage Brains by Paul Thompson it states “brain cells and connections are only being lost in the areas controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control. These frontal lobes, which inhibit out violent passion, rash actions, and regulate our emotions, are vastly immature throughout the teenage years”(1, 7). This tells us that that teenage brain does not work like adult brains. Teenager do not have full control over their brain because they have a massive loss of brain tissue that occurs in the teen years.

To begin with, poor judgment and decisions in teens lead to accidents and fatalities. Research shows that the teenage brain has not yet fully developed. Teenage brains have not yet developed fully according to Elizabeth Landau in a CNN article called “Why teens are wired for risk. The article states that Neuroscientists confirm that teenagers do have brains, but they’re wired differently from those of adults. According to the CNN article called “Why teens are wired for risk” by Elizabeth Landau, it states that Institutes of Health has shown, the prefrontal cortex, region of the brain associated with inhibition of risky behavior, doesn’t get fully

Dr. Jensen discussed development and how the brain, the most complex organ in the body, is the last to mature and for most species (including humans) it connects from the back to front. Therefore, the prefrontal cortex is the last thing that “connects” and even then, the cells must become insulated to more quickly carry information. There are miles of connections in the brain and without this insulation, teenagers cannot make decisions as quickly as adults. As Dr. Jensen stated, teenagers physically look like adults, and are therefore expected to act like adults. However, their brain is not fully developed,

The first article that I read was called “The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet” written by Richard Knox. This article explains why teenagers think the way they do and how their brain really works. What I found interesting about this article is that it explains how teenagers brain chemistry is tuned to be responsive to everything in their environment which makes it easier for them to acquire knowledge. Unfortunately, this brain chemistry also has a negative side to it. Since teenagers can learn very easily, it is also easy for them to get addicted to substances because “Addiction has been shown to be essentially a form of 'learning’.” Also, it explained that teenagers have a partially connected frontal lobe. Since their frontal l9be is

The teenage brain is still under construction and there are many things that distinguish it from the adult brain. There are physical factors that make the two in comparison so different. Also the behavior and the way teens and adults interact and think, makes their brains vary. In addition, there are some things that contribute either positively or negatively to the development to the teen brain, and it