Dear Educational Professional,
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Teenagers & Consequences!
Deborah Yurgelun-Todd is the director of neuro-psychology and cognitive neuro-imaging at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA. Her recent work suggests that teens' brains actually work differently than adults' when processing emotional information from external stimuli. In a recent study of mapping differences between brains of adults and teens, Todd put teenage and adult volunteers into an MRI and monitored how their brains responded to a series of pictures. The results were surprising. When she examined their brain scans, Todd found that the teenagers were using a different part of their brain when viewing the images.
There was an age-dependent or age-related change between the ages of eleven and seventeen, with the most dramatic difference being in the early teen years. One aspect of the scientists' work has been to look at the frontal part of the brain, which has been known to underlie thought, anticipation, planning and goal-directed behavior. They studied the relationship of this part to the more inferior, or lower part, of the brain, which has been associated with gut responses.
*The frontal lobe, the executive region that was studied, is not always functioning fully in teenagers. That would suggest that teenagers aren't thinking through the consequences of their behaviors.*
Now this explains so much! To read more about the implications of this work go to:
*Click on Tab 7 at the top RH side of the book and click once in the lower RH corner to start reading on page 60.*
Reaching out ...
Mary Robinson Reynolds, M.S.
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