Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become.
Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore explores:
- What makes the adolescent brain different?
- Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager?
- What drives the excessive risk-taking and the need for intense friendships common to teenagers?
- Why it is that many mental illnesses – depression, addiction, schizophrenia – begin during these formative years.
And she shows that while adolescence is a period of vulnerability, it is also a time of enormous creativity and opportunity.