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Teen Decision-Making and Neurological Development  


Author:  Rosa Kalish.


Source: Volume 16, Number 02, Spring 2012 , pp.40-40(1)




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Abstract: 

Rosa Kalish is a junior at West High School in Madison, WI. In this brief essay, she reviews the conclusions of Teenagers, Friends, and Bad Decisions by Tara Parker-Pope in a NY Times (Feb. 3, 2011) article summarizing the fasttrack report done by researchers at Temple University. (Jason Chein et al., “Peers Increase Adolescent Risk Taking by Enhancing Activity in the Brain’s Reward Circuitry,” Developmental Sci. F1–F10 (2010).)

Keywords: Adolescent brain development, risk-taking

Affiliations:  1: West High School, Madison WI.

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