Functional Effects of Adolescent Brain Changes

13/07/2007 11 min

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Episode Synopsis



Host: Laura Humphrey, PhD

Guest: Monique Ernst, MD, PhD



Selecting peers over parents and taking risks without comparable rewards are typical teenage behaviors. In this segment Dr. Monique Ernst, explains how brain changes during adolescence are responsible for many of the typical teenage behaviors.

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