Adolescence Quote by Becky Freeman

“Neuroscience research tells us that the adolescent brain is primed for the acquisition of new skills. Teens are driven to seek out new experiences,…

— Richard Guare

“very last section of the brain to mature, during the teenage years and early twenties, is the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment, impulse control,…

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

There's a science to brain development. The brains of teenage boys are crowded with impulse and adrenaline. By the time they hit their 20s,…

— George Pelecanos

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“THE DELAYED MATURATION of the frontal cortex suggests an obvious scenario, namely that early in adolescence the frontal cortex has fewer neurons, dendritic branches,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher

What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.

— Robert Sapolsky

“But in reality the brain is about circuits, about the patterns of functional connectivity among regions. The growing myelination of the adolescent brain shows…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.

— Alessia Cara

“Making matters worse, the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that governs so much of our higher executive function—the ability to plan and…

— Jennifer Senior

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan