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Inventing ourselves the secret life of the teenage brain

Describes the transformations that take place in the human brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex, which governs decision-making, planning, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, evaluating risk, and understanding others.

Main Author: Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2018]
Edition: First US edition.
Subjects:
Developmental neurobiology > Popular works.
Neurosciences > Popular works.
Brain > Growth > Popular works.
Adolescent psychology.
Summary: Describes the transformations that take place in the human brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex, which governs decision-making, planning, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, evaluating risk, and understanding others.
Item Description: "May 2018"--Title page verso.
Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
ISBN: 9781610397315
1610397312
Author Notes: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has published over 120 papers in scientific journals, and won multiple major awards for her research, including the Turin Young Mind & Brain Prize 2013, the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013, the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize 2015, the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge from the British Psychological Society in 2018, and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2018. She was named in the Times Young Female Power List 2014, was one of only four scientists on the Sunday Times 100 Makers of the 21st Century 2014, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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