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Blogs and articles
Blogs and articles
Blakemore. The neuroscientist who thinks 16-year-olds should vote. The Times. August 2025.
Blakemore. Exam stress: how to understand your child’s brain. The Times. April 2025.
Blakemore. What Adolescence gets right (and wrong) about teen boys’ brains. The Times. April 2025.
Blakemore. What my dad’s death taught me about the assisted dying debate. The Times, December 2024
Piera Pi-Sunyer. Promoting sports activities to prevent violence affecting young people in London: A trauma-informed perspective (2024) PDF
Blakemore. A critique of the Perry brain images of neglect (excerpt from Inventing Ourselves, 2018) PDF
Blakemore. Neuroscience, adolescence and GCSEs - a misalignment? (Rethinking Assessment) (2021)
Blakemore. Teenage risk taking and the social influence of friends may reflect maturing of the adolescent brain. Child and family blog (2014)
Interviews and media coverage
Interviews and media coverage
The Guardian: 'A social media ban for everyone is in the national interest – not just kids under 16'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/21/a-social-media-ban-for-everyone-is-in-the-national-interest-not-just-kids-under-16
BBC: 'Time alone raises 'threat alert' in teens – study' (2024)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpk3ln9k8o
The Independent: 'Isolation heightens 'threat vigilance' in teenagers, study suggests' (2024)
Daily Mail: 'Isolation heightens 'threat vigilance' in teenagers, study suggests' (2024)
Corriere Della Serra (Italy): 'Loneliness increases the 'danger alert' in adolescents, even if they are connected to social media' (2024)
https://www.corriere.it/salute/figli-genitori/adolescenza/24_novembre_28/la-solitudine-fa-aumentare-l-allerta-pericolo-negli-adolescenti-anche-se-sono-collegati-ai-social-a94276ba-a96a-409c-a226-1eb3c7743xlk.shtml
La Repubblica (Italy): 'Isolation Makes Kids Feel Unsafe. And Smartphones Don't Help' (2024)
https://www.repubblica.it/salute/2024/11/15/news/isolamento_ragazzi_smartphone_solitudine-423630684/
Helsingen Sanomat (Finland): 'Human experiment shows that even brief solitude sensitizes teens to threats, and cell phones don't help' (2024)
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000010832934.html
UK age of criminal responsibility is too low, say campaigners, The Times (2024)
Letter to the Guardian on young driver safety (2024)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/13/mps-must-act-to-save-young-drivers-lives
TES: 'What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones' (2023)
Learnus: 'Learnus visits The Blakemore Lab at the University of Cambridge in the UK' (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtVLakAlyLQ
UK Data Service: 'What is the relationship between perceived income inequality amongst friends and adolescent mental health and interpersonal difficulties?' (2023)
https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/perceived-income-inequality/
The Guardian: "Don't blame the young for being moody' - and seven other ways to nurture healthy teenage minds" (2023)
Science Daily: 'Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health, study finds' (2022)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221114190653.htm
The Independent: 'Children who feel poorer more likely to have mental health problems, major study finds' (2022)
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/child-poverty-effects-mental-health-b2225305.html
Forbes: 'Negative impact of social media for girls, boys varies by age' (2022)
Independent: '"Parents should talk to children about social media at a young age"' (2022)
Daily Mail: 'The age your child is most vulnerable to social media' (2022)
The Telegraph: 'Social media has a negative impact on girls earlier than boys, Oxbridge study finds' (2022)
BBC News: 'Teenage social media use linked to less life-satisfaction for some' (2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60875884
The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry: The Mystery of the Teenage Brain (2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014gnc
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2022)
The Naked Scientist: 'Teenagers and Social Isolation' (2020)
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/teenagers-and-social-isolation
Radio SRF (2019)
BBC Women's Hour (2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003r3l
BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage (2018)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pl662
The Guardian: ‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents (2018)
The Guardian: ‘It is, strangely, acceptable to mock and demonise teenagers’ (2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/25/sarah-jayne-blakemore-secret-life-teenage-brain
The Guardian: Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize (2018)
The Guardian: Teenagers’ brains not ready for GCSEs, says neuroscientist (2018)
The Royal Society: Life and research with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2016)
The Telegraph: Revealed - the science behind teenage laziness (2015)
BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains (2015)
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