Teenage Brain
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In the early centuries, the teen years were looked upon as very weird. It was a phenomenon that scared, and frightened people. All of the sudden, the teen who was once a kid is now hostile, and has changed plenty. Now in this day in time, scientists and psychologists are now unearthing more and more about the teenage brain. Discovering what is causing all this change in behavior. For me, after interviewing my parent, and looking at their questionnaire, it is safe to assume that teen’s brains and thought processes are different of an adult’s brain. Scientists’ are also backing up this claim.
The first reason I think teen brains are different from adult brains, is because of the growth occurring in the brain. Just before puberty, there is a growth spurt in the frontal cortex. There are two waves of this growth spurt. Other things that grow, is the grey matter that surrounds the brain; it thickens. Coupled with the growing is also losing. The teen brain grows connections, and also loses the ones that are not used. All this mentioned above causes a great imbalance in the brain, making it very unstable unlike the adult brain. This is the first reason.
The second reason the teen brains thought processes are different from adult brains, is because the teen brain uses different parts of the brain to characterize things than do adult brains. In the film, Inside the Teenage Brain, there was a study that made children and adults identify what moods were represented in a set of pictures. During this time an MRI was scanning the brain, to tell which part of the brain was being used. Surprisingly, the teen brain uses different parts of the brain than the adults do, too see emotion. The teens also identified different emotions, which were described by adults. Seeing this you can really see that teen brains are different than adult brains.
All in all looking at the new studies, and experiments being done by scientists, the teenage brain might finally be unscrambled. But scientists will never completely understand the whole thing; it is just too huge and complex. All we can really establish, is that it is totally different from the adult brain, and should be treated differently.