Beginning in the early teenage years and extending to the mids, the human brain undergoes a period of great change. During this period many teens tend to take more risks, seek high pleasure activities, and exhibit poor judgement. These facts make teenagers at heightened risk for substance use. In these MRI images of the developing brain, areas of green, yellow, red, and blue are still undergoing significant development into the early 20s.
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As you read this, a teen somewhere is making a decision they may regret for the rest of their lives, one with high costs for themselves, their families and their communities. Joining a gang or a terrorist organization or committing a serious crime. Every teen everywhere faces a turbulent transition to adulthood: the rapid development of identity, blossoming of emotions and onset of puberty. Neuroscientists explain the turbulence as caused by asymmetrical adolescent brain development. The socio-emotional processing system starts to respond to incentives and provocations from the early teens, but the cognitive control system, which is needed to filter those decisions is not fully developed until the early twenties. Over the past twenty years, there has been good news and bad news in research on adolescence.
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Each day, hundreds of teens initiate drugs and alcohol into their lives at a mere 12 to 14 years old. Each year, millions of adolescents are diagnosed with a substance use disorder, and naturally, many of us have trouble wrapping our minds around this shocking reality. At first, we may simply blame their age. They are just teenagers , experimenting, trying to claim a social status among their peers.
If your teenager experiences a blow to the head from sports or an accident like falling off a bike, you should take your child to the doctor immediately. According to a study published in the journal Brain Injury , teenagers were found to be more vulnerable to the effects of concussions than younger children or adults. The area of the brain most affected by concussions — the frontal lobe — is responsible for short-term memory and activities like reading and math. Because of the rapid development of the brain during the teen years, it is even more susceptible to injury, and adolescents who experience a concussion during this time suffer greater symptoms.
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