Biological roots for teen risk-taking: Uneven brain growth

ScienceDaily
Sep 9, 2020, 11:53 am118 ptsTrending
Why do some adolescents take more risks than others? Research suggests that two centers in the brain, one which makes adolescents want to take risks and the other which prevents them from acting on these impulses, physically mature at different rates and that adolescents with large differences in the rate of…

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