Secrets of the Teenage Brain : Research-Based Strategies for Reaching & Teaching Today's Adolescents

Teenagers. Neither children nor adults, the tongue-tied, moody and excitable adolescents have baffled teachers and administrators alike with their unpredictable behavior. Scientists and psychologists have they sough in vain to explain them. Are they victims of hormones? Of society? Or are they just plain stubborn? None of the above. Recent advances in neuroscience technology have finally made it possible to peer inside the heads of teens. The secrets of their inexplicable behavior have finally been revealed! Scientists have discovered that the brain-which everyone assumed finisheed growing in childhood.