Frances E. Jensen - The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientists Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
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Drawing on her research knowledge and clinical experience, internationally respected neurologistand mother of two boysFrances E. Jensen, M.D., offers a revolutionary look at the science of the adolescent brain, providing remarkable insights that translate into practical advice for both parents and teenagers.
Driven by the assumption that brain growth was pretty much complete by the time a child began kindergarten, scientists believed for years that the adolescent brain was essentially an adult oneonly with fewer miles on it. Over the last decade, however, the scientific community has learned that the teen years encompass vitally important stages of brain development.
Motivated by her personal experience of parenting two teenage boys, renowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen gathers what weve discovered about adolescent brain functioning, wiring, and capacity and, in this groundbreaking, accessible book, explains how these eye-opening findings not only dispel commonly held myths about the teenage years, but also yield practical suggestions that will help adults and teenagers negotiate the mysterious world of adolescent neurobiology.
Interweaving clear summary and analysis of research data with anecdotes drawn from her years as a parent, clinician, and public speaker, Dr. Jensen explores adolescent brain functioning and development in the contexts of learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making.
Rigorous yet accessible, warm yet direct, The Teenage Brain sheds new light on the brainsand behaviorsof adolescents and young adults, and analyzes this knowledge to share specific ways in which parents, educators, and even the legal system can help them navigate their way more smoothly into adulthood.
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Shadows Bright as Glass
T his book is dedicated to my two sons, Andrew and Will. Watching them grow into young men as they emerged through their teen years has been the joy of my life, and shepherding them through this time was probably the most important job of my life. Together we went on a journey, and as much as I taught them, they taught me. The product is this book, and I hope that it informs not only those people helping to raise adolescents, but also the teenagers themselves.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much hed learned in seven years.
MARK TWAIN
I would that there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting...
THE WINTERS TALE,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
| FIG. 1 | The Basics of Brain Structure (Brain images courtesy of and with permission from John Detre, MD, and Paul Yushkevich, PhD, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 2 | The Homunculus (Artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania. Brain image courtesy of and with permission from John Detre, MD, and Paul Yushkevich, PhD, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 3 | The Lobes of the Brain (Created by the author, artwork adapted by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania. Brain image courtesy of and with permission from John Detre, MD, and Paul Yushkevich, PhD, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 4 | Maturing Brain: The Brain Connects from Back to Front (A, C: Reprinted from N. Gogtay et al., Dynamic Mapping of Human Cortical Development During Childhood Through Early Adulthood, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101, no. 21 [May 25, 2004], 817479, copyright 2004 National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. B: Brain image courtesy of and with permission from John Detre, MD, and Paul Yushkevich, PhD, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 5 | Multitasking Is Still Not Perfect in the Teen Brain (With kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media and the author: M. Naveh-Benjamin et al., Concurrent Task Effects on Memory Encoding and Retrieval: Further Support for an Asymmetry, Memory & Cognition 34, no. 1 [2006], 96, fig. 3A, 2006). |
| FIG. 6 | Anatomy of Neuron, Axon, Neurotransmitter, Synapse, Dendrite, and Myelin (Created by the author, artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 7A | Inhibitory Cells Can Stop Signaling (Created by the author, artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 7B | Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses (Created by the author, artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 8 | The Young Brain Has More Excitatory Synapses Than Inhibitory Synapses (Courtesy of and created by the author). |
| FIG. 9 | Gender Differences in Rate of Cortical Gray Matter Growth (Reprinted with permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd./Nature Neuroscience: J. N. Giedd et al., Brain Development in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study, Nature Neuroscience 2, no. 10 [1999], 86163, 1999). |
| FIG. 10 | Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) Is a Widely Used Model of the Practice Effect of Learning and Memory (Created by the author, artwork adapted by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania. Brain image courtesy of and with permission from John Detre, MD, and Paul Yushkevich, PhD, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 11 | New Receptors Are Added to Synapses During Learning and Memory and Long-Term Potentiation (Created by the author, artwork adapted by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 12 | Gray Matter and White Matter Develop Differently Throughout Life (Courtesy of and with permission from Arthur Toga, Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California). |
| FIG. 13 | Adolescents Synaptic Plasticity Is Way Better Than Adults (Reprinted from N. L. Schramm et al., LTP in the Mouse Nucleus Accumbens Is Developmentally Regulated, Synapse 45, no. 4 [Sept. 15, 2002], 21319, copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.). |
| FIG. 14 | The Developmental Control of the Circadian System (Reprinted from M. H. Hagenauer and T. M. Lee., The Neuroendocrine Control of the Circadian System: Adolescent Chronotype, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 33, no. 3 [Aug. 2012], 21129, 2012, with permission from Elsevier and the author. Additional artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 15 | Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) Dopamine Neurons from Young Mice Are Able to Fire More Action Potentials Than Those from Adult Mice When Stimulated (Reprinted from A. N. Placzek et al., Age Dependent Nicotinic Influences over Dopamine Neuron Synaptic Plasticity, Biochemical Pharmacology 78, no. 7 [Oct. 1, 2009], 68692, 2009, with permission from Elsevier. Additional artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 16 | Rates of Alcohol, Cigarette, and Illicit Drug Use from the National Institutes of Health (Courtesy National Institute of Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Adapted by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania. Available at http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/nida_mtf2012_infographic_1_1000px_3.jpg). |
| FIG. 17 | Shared Synaptic Biology of Learning and Addiction (Artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 18 | The Adolescent Brain Responds to Nicotine More Robustly Than the Adult Brain (Reprinted from T. L. Schochet et al., Differential Expression of Arc mRNA and Other Plasticity-Related Genes Induced by Nicotine in Adolescent Rat Forebrain, Neuroscience 135, no. 1 [2005], 28597, 2005, with permission from Elsevier. Additional artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 19 | Alcohol Decreases LTP (A: Reprinted from T. A. Zhang et al., Synergistic Effects of the Peptide Fragment D-NAPVSIPQ on Ethanol Inhibition of Synaptic Plasticity and NMDA Receptors in Rat Hippocampus, Neuroscience 134, no. 2 [2005], 58393, 2005, with permission from Elsevier. B: Created by the author, artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania). |
| FIG. 20 | Alcohol Affects LTP in Adolescents More Than in Adults (Reprinted from G. K. Pyapali et al., Age and Dose-Dependent Effects of Ethanol on the Induction of Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation, Alcohol 19, no. 2 [Oct. 1999], 10711, 1999, with permission from Elsevier. Additional artwork by Mary A. Leonard, Biomedical Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania) |
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