A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic but crucial brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior The brain creates every feeling emotion and desire we experience and stores every one of our memories. And yet until very recently scientists believed our brains were fully developed from childhood on. Now thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages we know that this isnt so. Professor SarahJayne Blakemore one of the worlds leading researchers into adolescent neurology explains precisely what is going on in the complex and fascinating brains of teenagersnamely that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescencewith profound implications for the adults these young people will become. Drawing from cuttingedge research including her own Blakemore shows How an adolescent brain differs from those of children and adults Why problemfree kids can turn into challenging teens What drives the excessive risktaking and allconsuming relationships common among teenagers And why many mental illnessesdepression addiction schizophreniapresent during these formative years Blakemores discoveries have transformed our understanding of the teenage mind with consequences for law education policy and practice and most of all parents. show more