Teens Will Be Teens: The Latest Brain Research Has a Lot to Say about Adolescent Behavior.

Jones, Jami

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Title:	Teens Will Be Teens: The Latest Brain Research Has a Lot to Say about Adolescent Behavior
Authors:	Jones, Jami
Descriptors:	Logical Thinking; Brain; Adolescents; Child Behavior; Librarians; Library Role; Thinking Skills
Source:	School Library Journal, v51 n1 p37 Jan 2005
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Publisher:	School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. Web site: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com.
Publication Date:	2005-01-01
Pages:	1
Pub Types:	Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Abstract:	Most adults are challenged when it comes to understanding teens' motives. "What were they thinking of?" is an all-too-common response. Without a doubt, no developmental period in life is more confounding and baffling than adolescence. Until recently, erratic teen behavior was blamed on raging hormones, but scientific research in the last decade has revealed that it's not hormones, but the brain itself that is the culprit. Jay Giedd, a neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, and the author of the first long-term study of the adolescent brain, used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 145 teens over two-year intervals. The scans revealed brains that are still in transition--works in progress--that won't be thinking logically and rationally until young adults reach their early twenties. These natural brain spurts provide librarians with an opportunity to turn young adults into lifelong readers and library users. This article also provides a resource list for further study of adolescent brain growth and development.
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ISSN:	ISSN-0362-8930
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	High Schools; Junior High Schools

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