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The primal teen : what the new discoveries about the teenage brain tell us about our kids
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- Creator
- Barbara Strauch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Anchor books edition
- New York : Anchor Books, 2004
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 242 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780385721608, 0385721609
- OCLC
- ocm56519158
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
- Crazy by design: the new science of the teenage brain -- The passion within: peering into the living brain in search of normal -- The age of impulse: refashioning the frontal lobes -- Altered states: how experience changes the very structure of the brain -- Making connections: growing and pruning toward maturity -- The adolescent animal: from chimps to Chekhov -- Risky business: why they do the things they do -- Corny jokes and cognition: the adolescent brain starts to get it -- Swept away: a surge of hormones swirling through the brain -- The neurons of love: how the brain gives the heart away -- Wake up! it's noon: how biology shuts off the alarm -- Falling off the tracks: new dangers from old devils -- Into another world: when things go wrong -- Coming of age: on the path to maturity