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“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

“Recent science supports the idea that until children’s brains are fully developed (at around the age of 25), they’re more likely to be impulsive…

— Steven Briggs

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they’re making so many new synaptic connections and…

— Jennifer Senior

We know that at 17 a young person's brain is still developing. We recognize this when it comes to voting, joining the military, or…

— John Bel Edwards

“Over time, researchers who look at the adolescent brain have therefore alighted on a variety of metaphors and analogies to describe their excesses. Casey…

— Jennifer Senior

If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a teenager's because I'd want a brain that had never been used.

— Azgraybebly Josland

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

— Tom Robbins