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Is the Teenage Brain without a driver?

Is the Teenage Brain without a driver?. Is the Teenage Brain Fully Developed? By: Katelyn Hamar. Definitions.

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Is the Teenage Brain without a driver?

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  1. Is the Teenage Brain without a driver? Is the Teenage Brain Fully Developed? By:KatelynHamar

  2. Definitions • Brain- The large mass of nerve tissue enclosed in the cranium, responsible for the interpretation of sensory impulses, control of the body, and coordination; the center of thought and emotion in the body. • Teenager- The age between 13 and 19 years old.

  3. Teenage Brain Definition • The teenager's brain is still in a development processes. • Discovered that the development of the prefrontal cortex is growing again just before puberty. • Pre- frontal • Cerebral Hemispheres

  4. History of the Brain • Neuroscientists have discovered a great deal about the brain • Teenage brain was thought to be largely finished because the brain size does not change much after childhood years • Few years ago scientists began to take MRI imaging of the teenage brain.

  5. History of the Brain • Thickening and thinning of gray matter is occurring • Developing of the important frontal lobes • Parents blame hormones for the cause of swings and behavior

  6. History of the Brain • Hormones are not the cause of all teenage behavior • Teen brain is effecting everything from schoolwork, sleep patterns, and teen’s taking risks. • Risks Included-drinking, smoking, drug use, reckless driving, unsafe sexual activity, eating disorders, self- mutilation, stealing, gang activity and violence

  7. Brain Storm of the Adolescent Brain • Prefrontal Cortex • Right Ventral Striatum • Pineal Gland Teenage Brain

  8. Brain Continued • Corpus Callosum • Cerebellum

  9. Adults and teenagers are using different parts of their brain to think about problems. Teenagers were using the frontal part of the brain and their reasoning was not automatic for the teen. Maturing brain into teenage years

  10. Teenagers Emotions • Teenagers judgment still developing may explain the risk taking and emotions • Testosterone surges during puberty and teens have the emotions of anger and sadness • When neurons aren’t used they are eliminated. • Teens read facial expressions differently then adult • Teens read anger on someone's face when they are really shocked.

  11. Teenagers Sleep • Teens require around 9.5 hours of sleep pre night • Teens melatonin peeks around 1:00 am and peeks in adults around 10:00 pm • Melatonin the hormone is released to make us sleep • High Schools start times is changed because of information on sleep and how teenagers need sleep • Growth for Teens is important and is happening while sleeping

  12. Teenage Sleep • During the teen years very rapid physical growth and activity is happening • Teens biological clock changes and this causes fatigue in teens if they do not get enough sleep • Many teen have sleep deprivation

  13. Death Penalty for Teenagers • Adolescent death penalty and impulse control • Constitution’s 8th Amendment • Comparing teenager’s brains with Mental Retarded people’s brains

  14. Christopher Simmons • Crime at age 17 • Murder of Shirley Crook- tied her up with electrical cable and duck tape, and throw her over the bridge. She was found with bruises on her body and fractured ribs • Sentenced to Murder and received Death Penalty • Claiming Abuse from Step father for reason of crime • Case no. 03-0633 Roper v. Simmons

  15. Teens make quick impulse reactions sometimes with out thinking Drugs, Drinking and smoking cigarettes during your adolescent time may delay the normal growth of the brain. Teens take more risks because they don’t for see the results as adults do Risk Behaviors

  16. Pre Frontal cortex developing is the last to happen in a brain Gray matter changing by thickening and thinning Emotions being read from people’s faces are different during teen years Sleep patterns change Teenage risk behaviors is high Teens act on impulses Teens want to fit in with peers Teenagers are very influenced by the media Death Penalty for teenagers is being reexamined Teenage Brain

  17. Worked Cited Page • Beckman, Mary. “Crime, Culpability, and The adolescent Brain.” Science: Testing Human Limits 305 (2004) 596-599) • Berger, Kathleen. Sixth Edition: The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence. United States Of America, 2003 • Bland, J., (1998) About Gender: The Brain <http://www.gender.org.uk/about/07neur/74_brain.htm>) • Brain Tumors: Primers. Case Study. 16 October 2005 <http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/braintumor/section2/subsection2/Default.htm • City Of Signal Hill Police Department. City Jail. Illustration 18 October 2005 <http://www.signalhillpd.org/Jail.htm>) • Dicks, Lynn. “Teenagers”> New Scientist: Unfathomable Cosmos 2489(2205): 38-43 • Fackler, Amy. “Teenage Sleep Patterns.” Health 17 May 2004 <http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/te7279 • “Faith Bridge”. Illustration. 2005 United Methodist Church. 2005 14 October. <www.faithbridgeumc.org/youth.htm>..” 3 star Editions: Features 24 march 2005:44 • George, Alison." Teenagers Special: Going all the way.” New Scientist. COM. 2489(2005)44 • Kowalski, Kathiann. “What’s Inside the teenage brain.” Weekly Reader 27.3 (2000): 6 • Media Resources. 16 July 2005. Guerrilla Film Fest. Illustration 19 October 2005 <http://www.gflimfest.com/media.htm.> • Moran, Mark. “Adolescent Brain Development Argues Against Teen Executions. ” American Psychiatric Association 38(2003):8 >) .

  18. Work Cited page • Morris, Chris. “Teen Brian Complex; Changes more Significant then most Adults thought, Psychologist say” The Canadian Press Lifestyle 8 April 2005: 59. • “Palo Alto Medical Foundation” August 2005. PAMF At A Glance. Illustration 28 October 2005 <www.pamf.org/sbout/glance.html.> • “Teenage Brain: A work In Progress.” National Institute Of Mental Health. 2001. 22 September 2005 <http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/teenbrain.cfm> • Teenage Brain Work Differently than Adults. 13 October 2004. Online News Hour. 16 October 2005 <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec04/brain_10-13 • Time-Lapse Movies of Brain development. May 2004. Supplementary Data. 15 October 2005 <http://www.loni.ucla.edu/thompson/DEVEL/dynamic.html>) • “The Brain”. Sunrise Mountain High School. Illustration. 19 October 2005http://staffweb.peoriaud.k12.az.us/SMHS_Library/images/perfect.jpg> • Science Museum. “Emotions.” Illustration.2004. The National Museum of science and Industry. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/.../brain/282.asp • Short M. Nicholas. “RST”. Technical and Historical perspectives of Remote Sensing.<http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Intr/mri.jpg • Sleep experts to teens: Please get your zzz’s. 6 October 2000 CNnfyi.com 18 October 2005 <http://archives.cnn.com/2000/fyi/news/09/29/sleepy.teens/>) • STTOP. Sheriff’s Teen Traffic Offender Program. 19 October 2005 <http://www.sttop.net/statistics.htm>) • Supreme Court will revisit execution of teenage Killers. 26 January 2004. CNN.com 18 October 2005 <http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/26/scotus.death.penalty/>

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