Anatomy
This part of the brain is located behind your forehead.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This part of the brain is in charge of memory storage.
What is the hippocampus?
The limbic system starts changing around this age.
What is 11 or 12 years old?
This part of the brain is at the top of the brainstem which connects our nervous system to our brain.
What is the amygdala?
This part of the brain alerts us to danger and engages our fight-flight-or-freeze response.
What is the amygdala?
The prefrontal cortex develops until this age (on average).
What is 25 years old?
This part of the brain is shaped like a seahorse.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain is in charge of higher level thinking and problem solving.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The limbic system develops until this age (on average).
What is age 15 or 16?
This is the process in which neurons in the brain that aren't being used get eliminated and neurons in the brain that are used frequently get stronger.
What is pruning?
This part of the brain is engaged when you are feeling emotional.
What is the limbic system?
These experiences for teens might be explained by the different rates of development in the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system.
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Why do teens sometimes engage in risky behavior without thinking about what might happen later?
Why are teens more vulnerable to feeling highs when experiencing new things and lows when experiencing not exciting or painful things?
Why do teens sometimes struggle with seeing that lows are not here forever?
These parts of the brain that we discussed today are part of the limbic system.
What are the amygdala and the hippocampus?
These send us messages about our experiences and can help us decide how we want to react.
What are emotions or feelings?
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These are caused by changes in the limbic system during teenage years.
What are mood fluctuations?
What is being more prone to criticism?
What is increase in risky behavior?
What is a need for increased excitement?