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Teen Brain - Information
Links to articles and facts related to the adolescent brain.
Facts / Resources
"A Parent’s Guide to the Teen Brain" is the first in a series of new interactive products the Partnership will introduce at drugfree.org this year as part of a major new effort to champion parents and help them prevent and address drug and alcohol abuse among their kids and in their families.
Alcohol and The Teen Brain: Results of Duke University Research
DrugFree.org Need Help? Get Help! Drug prevention, drug abuse, drug intervention, drug treatment and recovery. Drugfree.org provides answers, guidance, tips and stories.
Drugs, Brains, and Behavior, The Science of Addiction Link to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Family Partnership: Children's Developmental Stages (pdf file)
Clincal studies by the national Institue of Mental Health (NIMH) published "Teenage Brain, A work in progress"
Articles
Alcohol and the Teen Brain: "...alcohol is used more than any illegal drug or cigarettes among adolescents." (2007: Monitoring the Future) Article details exactly how consumption of alcohol effects the developing brain.
What are teen girls thinking? The most sound, convincing, and well-developed answer to this question is given by psychologist Terri Apter.
Parenting Teens Doesn't have to be Tough One major change in adolescence is the development of abstract thinking, which is a critical component of problem solving. This helps explain why teenagers start to challenge their parents' judgment and decisions, why they start turning to peers for advice, why they begin to test limits and rules, and why they separate physically and emotionally from their parents and families.
Adolescence and Parent pressures: "The findings to emerge from this study show that the child's entrance into adolescence is often a difficult personal period in the parents' lives--perhaps even more difficult for parents than it is for their children. This is not simply because raising teenagers is an arduous task. It is because watching our children mature unearths complicated and intense emotions deep inside us. That these emotions typically rise to the surface during midlife, a time with its own trying agenda, makes matters much more difficult. ...
Parents: Relax: TIME, The Contrarian, April 9, 2007, ..."but there's strong evidence that the US adolescents are actually getting smarter - or at least making better decisions. Could the teen brain be evolving?"
