Inventing Ourselves
The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
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Inventing Ourselves
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Sarah Borges
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Sarah Borges
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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 isn't so. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, one of the world's leading researchers into adolescent neurology, explains precisely what is going on in the complex and fascinating brains of teenagers -- namely that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence--with profound implications for the adults these young people will become.
Drawing from cutting-edge research, including her own, Blakemore shows:
- How an adolescent brain differs from those of children and adults
- Why problem-free kids can turn into challenging teens
- What drives the excessive risk-taking and all-consuming relationships common among teenagers
- And why many mental illnesses -- depression, addiction, schizophrenia -- present during these formative years
Blakemore's discoveries have transformed our understanding of the teenage mind, with consequences for law, education policy and practice, and, most of all, parents.
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The book connects cutting-edge research in neuroscience, in which the author herself is thoroughly involved, to behavioural and psychological patterns in adolescents, motivated by intriguing questions, like: Why are adolescents the way they are, in the light of the development from child to adult? How long and in what areas and manners does the brain continue to develop, and what does this mean in terms of the humans inhabiting their brains? What distinguishes different phases in adolescence, for instance what are the most prolific times for learning different skills and hence should be taken into account in education? A question that gets particularly much attention in the book: Why and how are adolescents risk-takers in the presence of peers, and how is this reflected in brain development?
The book covers all this with a sound scientific rigour and carefulness, while ever staying readable and interesting even for the layman. The reason I don't gave it 5 stars (which to me would mean "a masterpiece"), is that to earn that, in my opinion, the book should have been richer in connecting different perspectives of adolescence. Especially perspectives from psychology, humanities like language, history, philosophy and art, and just "common experience" with adolescence, are only marginally taken in the book. This is probably a well-considered choice of the author, to stay on topics on which she is an expert, and to prevent the story becoming less scientifically validated and more speculative. But as long as it is made clear which thoughts and insights and connections are speculative, and that case studies perhaps don't generalise, such can be very valuable in a book; such could have made me more empathetic with adolescents than from a perspective which is mainly neuroscientific.
Further, having read The Master and his Emissary by McGilchrist, I don't agree on Blakemore's choice of disregarding lateralization of brain function; I agree only to the extent that the popular viewpoint on this is too simplistic.
The voice of Borges is personal, insightful and subtle, it is easy to forget that she is not the author; really suitable for a science book.
All in all, I really recommend this book to anyone with a scientific inclination who is interested in the development in brain and mind.
Science Book Prize winner for good reasons
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