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How Your Brain "Grows Up": Brain Change from Adolescence to Adulthood

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Growing up, do you remember counting down the days until your 18th birthday?

For many of us, 18 meant adulthood and, most importantly, freedom from the rules and restrictions that often come along with adolescence . . .

. . . rules meant to protect teenagers from what we might think of as risky or impulsive behavior.

According to Dan Siegel, MD, these behaviors may have to do with the structure of the teenage brain.

In this video, he explains one fundamental change that happens in the brain during adolescence, and why it may hold the key to understanding the “recklessness of youth”.

I hope you’ll check it out.

A lot of the risks that teenagers often take have a lot to do with their brain.

To learn more about the neurobiology of the teenage brain just click here.

How have you used brain science to help a client better understand his or her behavior, and make more productive choices? Please let us know in the comment section below.

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  1. Francis Robins, Psychology, GB says

    The adolescence brain should be trained not to create perceptions i.e. a personal view of the world as the information on which it is based can be false. They should instead concentrate on living their life in a bubble i.e. without the troubles of the world on their shoulders.

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  2. flavia derby, Coach, GB says

    Pictures of the brain in action show that adolescents’ brains work differently than adults when they make decisions or solve problems. dissertation writers Their actions are guided more by the emotional and reactive amygdala and less by the thoughtful, logical frontal cortex.

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  3. Nathan says

    I keep trying to track it down, but I can’t find how to sign up for the free webinar — just the gold membership… Help! I want to see Daniel Siegel!
    Thanks.

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  4. Anita, Conference Interpreter, Switzerland says

    Hi that was highly interesting but not due to MY experience as a teenager in India… Thanks Anita

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  5. Elaine Dolan says

    I’m relatively sure that this –minimizing the danger, maximizing the pros— is NOT true of those with Complex Trauma–Autism. I remember sensing and guarding myself *maximally*in those years. For example, I chose to go to an all-girl’s Catholic school and I never when to dances, formal or informal. I would describe my emotions as glazed-over, hypervigilant, in a freeze state. I dated one man (much older) and stayed with him for seven years, never daring to move past him when I was emotionally dissatisfied. I do remember becoming more daring or *crazy* in my 30’s. So I guess that was or is DELAYED.

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  6. Heather Booth says

    No comment.

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  7. DockyWocky says

    I remember stating that “now that I am 18, I guess all I have to look forward to now is getting fat and bald.”

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