The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Adolescence
The teenage brain's unique architecture: heightened reward sensitivity, immature prefrontal regulation, synaptic pruning, and why this combination produces the risk-taking, intensity, and creativity of the adolescent years
1,408-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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The teenage brain is not a broken adult brain. It is a brain under construction, characterised by a mismatch between a reward system that is fully operational and a prefrontal regulatory system that is still being built. This mismatch produces the risk-taking, emotional intensity, peer sensitivity, and creative possibility that define adolescence. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of the teenage brain, examines why adolescence is both a period of vulnerability and a period of extraordinary potential, and argues that understanding the architecture changes everything about how we respond to the behaviour it produces.
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