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Understanding Teen Brain Behavior by Eveline Cal is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) Teenagers engage in more risk-taking behavior like unsafe sex, drugs, and fast driving due to a neurological gap in their developing brains between the reward system and cognitive control system. 2) Neuroscience research shows that in rats and humans, the adolescent brain weighs rewards more heavily, taking greater risks to achieve them, due to a more active reward system. 3) The cognitive control system that regulates risk-taking develops more slowly and is less active in teens, leaving them with a st
- Author
- Eveline Cal
- Language
- EN