Inventing ourselves
Subtitle: the secret life of the teenage brain
By: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781610397315
Subjects: Neurosciences; Growth; Developmental neurobiology; Adolescent psychology; Brain; Popular works
Description: Describes the transformations that take place in the human brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex, which governs decision-making, planning, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, evaluating risk, and understanding others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 Adolescence isn't an aberration; title: 2 A sense of self; title: 3 Fitting in; title: 4 Inside the skull; title: 5 Inside the living brain; title: 6 The ever-plastic brain; title: 7 Social mind, social brain; title: 8 Understanding other people; title: 9 The right sort of risks; title: 10 When things go wrong; title: 11 Educating the brain; title: 12 It's the journey that matters; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgements; title: Illustration sources; title: Index