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Understanding the teenage brain, with Eva Telzer, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Adapting to the Environment

We're really sort of, in a sense, you might say, we know where we've been coddling or our kids. Is that having an impact on their a desire to take risks and risks that might be good for them? Ye. In a lot of ways, this can be positive a there's research from both animal models and actually human models showing that the brain slows down in development when given the opportunity to grow up sooner. And so if you're in an environment at allows you to kind of slow down that process of developing and growing up, ah, then it's perhaps a positive thing for for youth.

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