This is the permanent link for a digression that was posted on August 27th, 2009 and tagged adolescence, brain research, neuroscience, scientific american, Youth Ministry. If you would like to see all posts filed in the Digressions category, click here.
Countering conventional wisdom, a brain-imaging study finds that, in risk-taking teens, the brain’s white matter looks like that of an adult. “After reviewing all of the neurodevelopment stuff, I couldn’t really find any link between brain development and adolescent risk-taking. Nobody denies that the brain develops or that teens take risks, but how the two got intertwined is beyond me.” Related: The Primal Teen.
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