Another Quote by Robin Marantz Henig

“Over a period of 10 to 12 years, beginning around puberty, the plasticity of the adolescent brain allows for rewiring. What the final wiring…

— Richard Guare

“The prefrontal cortex is a complex, fragile region of the brain. In its healthy state, it directs human impulses toward rational choices and away…

— Ron Powers

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

“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

“p 16 ...although our limbic system [eg. attention, fear, rage....] functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“The prefrontal cortex is a complex, fragile region of the brain. In its healthy state, it directs human impulses toward rational choices and away…

— Ron Powers

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Scientists used to think the brain reached maturity around the age of 25 years and then deteriorated. Now we know it’s much more like…

— Matt Lewis

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and…

— Maimouna Doucoure