Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain

Author/Creator:

Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne, author

Publication/Creation:

London : Doubleday, 2018

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Neurosciences--Popular works
Brain--Growth--Popular works
Adolescent psychology--Popular works

Description/Summary

Table of 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:

Our personalities, aspirations and dreams are all established in our brains. It creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, we believed that it stopped developing in childhood; that by the time you reached adolescence, your brain was fully developed. In "Inventing Ourselves", award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore reveals that this is simply not the case. There are fundamental differences between the adult and adolescent brain, and typical teenage behaviour - risk taking, intense relationships, going to bed and getting up late - is caused by the transformations that take place during this formative period. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these physiological changes are most evident in the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for decision-making, planning, inhibiting inappropriate behaviour, evaluating risk and understanding others. While working in a psychiatric hospital in Versailles, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was struck by the realisation that every patient first experienced symptoms during this pivotal period. Why is this? What happens to our brains during our teenage years? And what makes adolescent brains particularly vulnerable to illnesses such as schizophrenia? With implications for education, parenting and treating mental health conditions, Inventing Ourselves will transform the way we think about adolescence and reveal that the changes we experience throughout our teenage years dictate the adults we become.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936811394102486

ISBN:

9780857523709
0857523708
9780857523716
0857523716

OCLC Number:

1028200745

Barcode:

050000049632