The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
Chasing Life
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How Does the Adolescent Brain Function?
The adolescent brain also goes through a process of cleaning house. Callit it starts to consolidate and refine the information it has collected. We call this process pruning. And this seems to be a sculpting as a result of experience. So losing parts of the an would seem to be a bad thing, but what it is is really a honing of the brain based on experience,. When you act on the world and the world responds, your brain codes all that and it changes the nature of your brain.
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