The primal teen
Subtitle: what the new discoveries about the teenage brain tell us about our kids
By: Barbara Strauch.
Edition: 1st Anchor books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Behavioral assessment of teenagers; Teenagers -- Physiology; Teenagers -- Mental health; Developmental neurobiology
Notes: Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crazy by design: the new science of the teenage brain; title: The passion within: peering into the living brain in search of normal; title: The age of impulse: refashioning the frontal lobes; title: Altered states: how experience changes the very structure of the brain; title: Making connections: growing and pruning toward maturity; title: The adolescent animal: from chimps to Chekhov; title: Risky business: why they do the things they do; title: Corny jokes and cognition: the adolescent brain starts to get it; title: Swept away: a surge of hormones swirling through the brain; title: The neurons of love: how the brain gives the heart away; title: Wake up! it's noon: how biology shuts off the alarm; title: Falling off the tracks: new dangers from old devils; title: Into another world: when things go wrong; title: Coming of age: on the path to maturity.