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This Is Your Brain on Puberty: Study Probes Why Learning Slows for Teens

Posted March 23, 2010 7:59 AM

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It's not that teenagers aren't trying to learn. (Well, OK, some of them definitely aren't trying.) But the distractions that come with being a teenager are exacerbated by the fact that teens just don't learn as quickly as either young kids or adults, and a new study of mice that appears in Science points to specific brain changes that might help explain why. Seeking to study spatial learning during puberty, the team devised a relatively complex task (at least for a mouse) that requires learning how to avoid a moving platform that delivers a very mild shock.

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03/23/2010 11:20 PM

Ahh yes, let's give our children even more drugs under the guise of helping them.

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03/24/2010 6:41 AM

From the standpoint of reproductive success, puberty bids fair to be a pretty big deal. So no wonder it siphons off a lot of mental energy, such as figuring out good flirtations...including some of the best poetry and drama. So don't knock it!

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03/24/2010 9:28 AM

I have four teenagers, and you can emphasize the DRAMA part.

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