Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain is a must read for any parents or teachers of teenagers or soon to be teenagers.
Drawing upon her cutting-edge research Professor Blakemore shows that while adolescence is a period of vulnerability, it is also a time of enormous creativity and opportunity. This book was the winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018.
Blakemore previously spoke to Five Books, recommending the best books on the mind and the brain.
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“Any parent of teenagers will enjoy this book. What is it that happens to your child’s brain as they enter adolescence—their mood swings, their need for intense friendships, the excessive risk taking . . . Blakemore is a superb neuroscientist, and also, it turns out, a remarkably engaging and talented writer.” Read more...
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