Brains of reckless teens are more mature

August 27, 2009

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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