Title:
Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.
Author:
Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne, author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
QP363.5 .B57 2018
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First US edition.
ISBN:
9781610397315
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"May 2018"--Title page verso.
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.
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