The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Emotional Intensity
Why everything feels like the end of the world when you are fifteen, how the amygdala-prefrontal mismatch creates emotional storms, and why the intensity is a feature of the developing brain rather than a flaw
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The teenager who cries as though the world has ended because a friend did not reply to a message is not overreacting. They are reacting with a brain in which the amygdala, the engine of emotional intensity, is fully operational while the prefrontal cortex, the system that contextualises emotion and modulates its expression, is still under construction. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of emotional intensity in adolescence, examines why the teenage experience is characterised by feelings that are bigger, faster, and more overwhelming than anything that came before or will come after, and argues that the intensity is not something to be cured but something to be understood.
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