Discussion: Brain development among kids and adolescents
Watch the video(s): Inside the Teenage Brain at the following website. The video is about 1 hour and broken down into sub-parts. Use the video and your textbook (Section 3: Structures of the Brain and Their Functions, and Section 5: Brain Damage, Plasticity, and Repair) to answer the items below.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
The brain undergoes many changes during a child’s development.
List the similarities that occur in brain development when a child is young (including prenatally), .and when s/he is an adolescent. Be sure to address the following three areas
Brain growth
Pruning (to make brain more efficient)
Relationships
List the differences that occur in brain development when a child is young (including prenatally), .and when s/he is an adolescent.
Brain growth
Pruning (to make brain more efficient)
