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Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.

By: Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2018Copyright date: Transworld Publishers, 2019, c2018. LondonEdition: Black swan editionDescription: 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781610397315; 1610397312; 9781784161347Subject(s): Developmental neurobiology -- Popular works | Neurosciences -- Popular works | Brain -- Growth -- Popular works | Adolescent psychology | Psychology, Adolescent | Brain -- growth & development | Psychology -- Developmental -- Adolescent | PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Neuroscience | Adolescent psychology | Brain -- Growth | Developmental neurobiology | Neurosciences | | | | | | | Genre/Form: Nonfiction. | Popular works. DDC classification: 612.8 LOC classification: QP363.5 | .B57 2018
Contents:
Adolescence isn't an aberration -- A sense of self -- Fitting in -- Inside the skull -- Inside the living brain -- The ever-plastic brain -- Social mind, social brain -- Understanding other people -- The right sort of risks -- When things go wrong -- Educating the brain -- It's the journey that matters.
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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne. Inventing ourselves.
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"May 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.

Adolescence isn't an aberration -- A sense of self -- Fitting in -- Inside the skull -- Inside the living brain -- The ever-plastic brain -- Social mind, social brain -- Understanding other people -- The right sort of risks -- When things go wrong -- Educating the brain -- It's the journey that matters.

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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

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