Here at Linder Educational Coaching we work will many school-age students on a daily basis to help them achieve their goals and do well in their studies. With so much emphasis on college applications many of our clientele are teenagers. We have experienced the frustration that can arise between teenagers, their parents, teachers, etc. during the school years.
Today we are sharing an article from NPR.org which talks about how the teenage brain isn't just lacking the experience to make the best judgements, but how it actually isn't fully developed yet.
The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet
Neurologist Francis Jensen examining a teenage patient. Jensen decided to study the teenage brain when her own sons became teenagers. Now Jensen lectures to teens and parents about how teenagers' brains are different.
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"When adolescence hit Frances Jensen's sons, she often found herself wondering, like all parents of teenagers, "What were you thinking?" "It's a resounding mantra of parents and teachers," says Jensen, who's a pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital in Boston. Jensen is a Harvard expert on epilepsy, not adolescent brain development.
As she coped with her boys' sour moods and their exasperating assumption that somebody else will pick up their dirty clothes, she decided to investigate what neuroscientists are discovering about teenagers' brains that makes them behave that way. She wanted to find out what was causing his maddening teenage behavior. She learned that that it's not so much what teens are thinking — it's how.
Jensen says scientists used to think human brain development was pretty complete by age 10. Or as she puts it, that "a teenage brain is just an adult brain with fewer miles on it." But it's not. To begin with, she says, a crucial part of the brain — the frontal lobes — are not fully connected. Really."
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