Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain /

by Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne [author.].

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BookPublisher: London : Black Swan, 2019Description: 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781784161347 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 612.8083 BLASubject(s): Neurosciences -- Popular works | Brain -- Growth -- Popular works | Adolescent psychology -- Popular works | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingAwards: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018Summary: In this volume, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how our brains develop in our adolescent years and how these changes determine the adults we become. Our personalities, aspirations and dreams are all established in our brains. It creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, we believed that it stopped developing in childhood; that by the time you reached adolescence, your brain was fully developed. Here, Sarah-Jayne reveals that is simply not the case.

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Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this volume, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how our brains develop in our adolescent years and how these changes determine the adults we become. Our personalities, aspirations and dreams are all established in our brains. It creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, we believed that it stopped developing in childhood; that by the time you reached adolescence, your brain was fully developed. Here, Sarah-Jayne reveals that is simply not the case.

Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018

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