On Sale: Jan 14, 2020
Page Count: 256 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN-13: 9781541742741

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A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior

The brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed from childhood on. Now, thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages, we know that this isn’t so. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, one of the world’s leading researchers into adolescent neurology, explains precisely what is going on in the complex and fascinating brains of teenagers — namely that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence–with profound implications for the adults these young people will become.

Drawing from cutting-edge research, including her own, Blakemore shows:

How an adolescent brain differs from those of children and adults
Why problem-free kids can turn into challenging teens
What drives the excessive risk-taking and all-consuming relationships common among teenagers
And why many mental illnesses — depression, addiction, schizophrenia — present during these formative years

Blakemore’s discoveries have transformed our understanding of the teenage mind, with consequences for law, education policy and practice, and, most of all, parents.

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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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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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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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