Quote by Richard Guare

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

— Robin Marantz Henig

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

— Al Bernstein

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

— Alison Gopnik

“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

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

— Kate Bush

“Your brain is “plastic” even during your later years. You have within you the capability of altering your brain which will secondarily alter your…

— Brett Osborn

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and…

— Fefe Dobson

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

— Andrea Riseborough

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads…

— Louise J. Kaplan

The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development.

— Patty Mills

“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

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

— Anonymous