Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Name: Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
ISBN: 9781473527256

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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Inventing Ourselves won the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize and the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore explores: What makes the adolescent brain different? Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? What drives the excessive risk-taking and the need for intense friendships common to teenagers? Why it is that many mental illnesses - depression, addiction, schizophrenia - begin during these formative years. And she shows that while adolescence is a period of vulnerability, it is also a time of enormous creativity and opportunity.

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