The Teenage Brain

Watching the movie “The Teenage Brain”,I learned many things that I did not know. The video shows there is plenty of proof that shows that teenager over exercise their brains. Many tests show that the teenage brain at the late age of 17 or 18 still does not react the same way that an adult brain does. I would have thought that by the age of 18 your brain should react the same way that an adult brain reacts. It was interesting to find out that the brain still has a long way to go when one is still a teenager.

            Teenagers and adult brains react completely differently with different parts of their brain to the same stimuli. In an experiment done at Brown University there were a series of pictures shown to adults and teenagers and apparently the sample of teenagers saw fear, pain, disgust, sadness, and many other bad emotions while adults saw emotions that were not so radical and drastic.

            The correct amount of sleep time for a normal human being is about nine hours and twenty-five minutes per night, many teenagers are getting on average seven or less hours of sleep per night. Students are coming to school with less hours of sleep, therefore they are more tired and don’t use their brain to their maximum capacity. In my opinion these brains should be better treated and this video shows us different reasons why we should take care of out brain and different ways to do so.






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