Teen Brain Basics
Feeling & Thinking
Reaping in the Rewards
Risky Business
Alcohol
100
This region of the brain goes through dramatic changes, and is not fully formed mature' during adolescence.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
100
This is what shapes the development of the adolescence.
What is the environment?
100
This neurotransmitter is responsible the activation of brain's reward system.
What is dopamine?
100
The teen brain is "hard-wired" for this type of behavior.
What is risk taking?
100
it is the most commonly drug used and abused by teens.
What is alcohol?
200
This region of the brain controls inappropriate behaviors and is not fully mature during adolescence.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
200
When teens act impulsively, it is this brain system that is responsible.
What is the limbic system?
200
The Limibic System has been identified as the center for this type of processing.
What is emotional processing?
200
This system in the brain which accounts for risk taking behaviors during adolescence.
What is the limbic system?
200
It is pattern of drinking defined as 5 or more drinks for males or more 4 or more females, within a two hour span.
What is binge-drinking?
300
These nerve cells located in the brain are specialized to carry "messages" through an electrochemical process.
What are neurons?
300
The process of pruning during adolescence, results in a brain that is this.
What is fine tuned?
300
This theory explains the process of pruning that takes place during adolescence.
What is "Lose it or Use it?"
300
It is a disease that usually starts before the age of 18 in teens who regularly drink or do drugs.
What is addiction?
300
This is a structure located in the limbic system that is associated with turning memory from short to long term and is critical to learning.
What is the hippocampus?
400
They are the connections between neurons.
What are synapses?
400
This area of the brain located in the frontal lobe, which is responsible for interpreting social cues is less active in the teen brain.
What is the medial cortex
400
These are located at the end of neurons and receive neurotransmitters in the reward center.
What is dopamine receptors?
400
This structure located deep within the brain accounts for emotional outbursts, and moodiness during adolescence.
What is the amygdala?
400
According to research heavy drinking causes this structural changes to the hippocampus.
What is shrink?
500
There is a decline in this type of brain matter, due to synaptic pruning during adolescence.
What is gray matter?
500
During adolescence neural connections are insulated through a process that is called this.
What is mylenation?
500
This area within the reward system is critical and can be permanently damaged.
What is the nucleus accumbens?
500
Drugs effect the brain because some of their chemical components do this.
What is mimic neurotransmitters?
500
Scientists have found that alcohol compromises the integrity of this type of brain matter.
What is white matter?