[In Context] The storm and stress in the adolescent brain

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (London, UK), is sick of hearing the same joke over and over again. When she informs people that she studies the adolescent brain, she inevitably hears a now familiar refrain: “What? Teenagers have brains?” She's right to take offence, not only on behalf of the young people she works with, but because—as her book, Inventing Ourselves: the Secret Life of the Teenage Brain demonstrates—adolescence is a fascinating and important period of neurological change.

Source: Lancet Neurology - March 15, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Stirrups Tags: In Context Source Type: research