Adolescent Brain

News about sleep deprivation and the adolescent brain (April 2011) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42575752/ns/nightly_news/

At the bottom of this page are attached readings on Adolescent Brain Development.

Required

Five attached documents:

•  The Biology of Risk Taking: 1. questions to guide reading, 2. the article (pdf file*).

•   Inside Amy's Brain: 1. questions to guide reading, 2. the article (pdf file*,) 3. graphic organizer

Optional

NOVA Science "How Does The Brain Work?" http://video.pbs.org/video/1757221034      

Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2012, "What's Wrong with the Teenage Mind?"

TED video: A Map of the Brain by Allan Jones. How scientists are creating a map of the brain. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/allan_jones_a_map_of_the_brain.html

The attached article, The Teenage Brain: A Work in Progress is a pdf file which requires Adobe Acrobat. If you don't have that software, click http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/  for a free download.           

The PBS Frontline Special "Inside the Teenage Brain", is mentioned in Chapter 1 of our text, which has extensive information on adolescent brain development. Here's a link to the PBS special:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/