The Teenage Brain Explained
Being a teenager is hard. Especially when hormones play their part in wreaking havoc on the teenage body and brain. In this episode, Hank explains what is happening to the during the angsty-time....
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Being a teenager is hard. And so is living with one, I'm told. No human gets to escape this moody, angsty, confusing phase And interestingly, such an extended adolescence is unique to humans. Other animals grow up a lot faster than we do. And you may think our teen years are just about streamlining bodies for baby making, but as it turns out, the storm of sex hormones that we associate with the teenage years, are only a small part of what's really going on in the teenage body. Most of the action, it turns out, is happening in the brain. Until fairly recently, we thought that the brain finished the nuts and bolts of its development, by the time we started kindergarten. But really, when puberty starts, it undergoes massive remodeling. This amou...
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Being a teenager is hard. And so is living with one, I'm told. No human gets to escape this moody, angsty, confusing phase And interestingly, such an extended adolescence is unique to humans. Other animals grow up a lot faster than we do. And you may think our teen years are just about streamlining bodies for baby making, but as it turns out, the storm of sex hormones that we associate with the teenage years, are only a small part of what's really going on in the teenage body. Most of the action, it turns out, is happening in the brain. Until fairly recently, we thought that the brain finished the nuts and bolts of its development, by the time we started kindergarten. But really, when puberty starts, it undergoes massive remodeling. This amou...
