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The primal teen : what the new discoveries about the teenage brain tell us about our kids

Draws on scientific findings to offer insight into the teenage brain, identifying the factors that contribute to adolescent behavior and how parents can use this information to promote more harmonious parent-child relationships
eBook, English, [2007]
Anchor Books, New York, [2007]
1 online resource (204 pages)
9780307429223, 9781299001589, 0307429229, 1299001580
773593991
Print version:
Crazy by design: the new science of the teenage brain
The passion within: peering into the living brain in search of normal
The age of impulse: refashioning the frontal lobes
Altered states: how experience changes the very structure of the brain
Making connections: growing and pruning toward maturity
The adolescent animal: from chimps to Chekhov
Risky business: why they do the things they do
Corny jokes and cognition: the adolescent brain starts to get it
Swept away: a surge of hormones swirling through the brain
The neurons of love: how the brain gives the heart away
Wake up! it's noon: how biology shuts off the alarm
Falling off the tracks: new dangers from old devils
Into another world: when things go wrong
Coming of age: on the path to maturity