Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
612.82/BLAKEMORE,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : PublicAffairs, 2018
EDITION
First US edition
DESCRIPTION
240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781610397315, 1610397312 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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