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Title: The Adolescent Brain What does it look like What can it do What does it need


1
The Adolescent BrainWhat does it look like?What
can it do?What does it need?
  • Parent Seminar
  • February 2008
  • Ana Isabel Laguarda

2
Why should we care?
  • who is at the wheel?
  • Know what you are working with (to keep sane)
  • Know what you can do to support it.

3
What does it look like?
  • The bits and how they
  • work
  • neurons!
  • and glial cells
  • Shape how the bits
  • come together
  • main regions
  • Whats inside
  • Hormones
  • Brain development

4
What can it do? (Or why are teens so special?)
  • Hormones
  • Impact of hormones on the brain
  • Impact of hormones on decision making
  • WHY would he do that?
  • Prefrontal cortex not fully mature
  • More reliance on the amygdala
  • Amygdala highly susceptible to stress,
    (cortisol). Might be why they follow each other
    in emotional situations.
  • Social development
  • Parts of brain that help you to take someone
    elses perspective still forming

5
What does it need? (what can you do?)
  • Exposure to the arts
  • developing brain
    connections
  • abstract thinking
  • Exercise the best way to
  • produce new brain cells
  • Sleep
  • the best way to learn!

6
What does it need? (what can you do?)
  • Good food protein,
    vegetables
  • (broccoli, cabbage),
    fruit, whole grains,
  • olive oil, oily fish
    (omega 3 fatty acids), garlic. These
    help to make neurotransmitters, protect your
    brain.
  • Support
  • Predictability and Ritual
  • This helps raise the other
  • chemicals, push out the
    cortisol

7
What does it need? (what can you do?)
  • Water delivers
  • nutrients, eliminates
    toxins
  • Talk about
    immediate
  • consequences.
    Its all
  • that will make
    sense.
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