Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.
By: Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, ©2018Edition: First US edition.Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781610397315.Subject(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 | NeurosciencesGenre/Form: Nonfiction. | Popular works. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | QP363.5 .B57 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013685 |
"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.--