Video
The teen brain: Mysteries and misconceptions
Who this is for:
A conversation about the teenage brain’s strengths and vulnerabilities, how adults can support teenagers with mental health issues, and how teens can help one another.
Speakers:
- BJ Casey, Neuroscientist, Barnard College-Columbia University
- Diana Chao, Mental Health Activist and Founder of Letters to Strangers
Moderated by Emily Underwood, Science Content Producer, Knowable Magazine
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- Teens can have excellent executive function — just not all the time
- Inside the adolescent brain
- Effects of the pandemic on the developing child
Related Annual Review articles:
- Beyond Simple Models of Self-Control to Circuit-Based Accounts of Adolescent Behavior
- Healthy Development as a Human Right: Insights from Developmental Neuroscience for Youth Justice
- Treating the Developing Brain: Implications from Human Imaging and Mouse Genetics
About: This event is part of an ongoing series of live events and science journalism from Knowable Magazine and Annual Reviews, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. “The baby brain: Learning in leaps in bounds” is supported by a grant from the Dana Foundation. a private philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society.