Adolescence in sentence

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They have to go through their primary one, that's already awkward, and then they go through their second self's adolescence, and that's even more awkward because there's an actual history of what they've gone through online.

They realize that this is actually a developmental stage of life with its own significance, as different from midlife as adolescence is from childhood.

If it has a subject, the subject is adolescence.

So many labs around the world are involved in this kind of research, and we now have a really rich and detailed picture of how the living human brain develops, and this picture has radically changed the way we think about human brain development by revealing that it's not all over in early childhood, and instead, the brain continues to develop right throughout adolescence and into the '20s and '30s.

So adolescence is defined as the period of life that starts with the biological, hormonal, physical changes of puberty and ends at the age at which an individual attains a stable, independent role in society.

One of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescence is called prefrontal cortex.

So MRI studies looking at the development of this region have shown that it really undergoes dramatic development during the period of adolescence.

It peaks in early adolescence.

You can see that that peak happens a couple of years later in boys relative to girls, and that's probably because boys go through puberty a couple of years later than girls on average, and then during adolescence, there's a significant decline in gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex.

You prune away the weaker branches so that the remaining, important branches, can grow stronger, and this process, which effectively fine-tunes brain tissue according to the species-specific environment, is happening in prefrontal cortex and in other brain regions during the period of human adolescence.

This region is more active in adolescents when they make these social decisions and think about other people than it is in adults, and this is actually a meta-analysis of nine different studies in this area from labs around the world, and they all show the same thing, that activity in this medial prefrontal cortex area decreases during the period of adolescence.

In other words, everything you need to do in order to remember the rule and apply it seems to be fully developed by mid-adolescence, whereas in contrast, if you look at the last two gray bars, there's still a significant improvement in the director condition between mid-adolescence and adulthood, and what this means is that the ability to take into account someone else's perspective in order to guide ongoing behavior, which is something, by the way, that we do in everyday life all the time, is still developing in mid-to-late adolescence.

So people often ask, "Well, is adolescence a kind of recent phenomenon?

There are lots of descriptions of adolescence in history that sound very similar to the descriptions we use today.

So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."

There's an important drive to become independent from one's parents and to impress one's friends in adolescence.

All four of my grandparents, for example, left school in their early adolescence.

And I was on the cusp of, sort of, adolescence, so I was starting to take biscuits from the tin without asking.

Researchers call the 20s an extended adolescence.

Those deaf people discover community somehow in adolescence.

So there are important changes happening in the structure and function of the brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, and these are areas that are crucial for things like self-control, decision-making, emotion processing and regulation and sensitivity to reward and risk, all of which can affect how you function in a stressful circumstance, like a police interrogation.

I wrote all through childhood, all through adolescence, by the time I was a teenager I was sending my very bad stories to The New Yorker, hoping to be discovered.

In my own adolescence, I went to extreme lengths to try to be straight.

Now, I'm not so sure that many of us know which vaccines or boosters we should receive after adolescence.

That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning.

But at 47, Priya's affair is about the adolescence that she never had.

There are entire textbooks written about the developmental arc of adolescence, and we don't even have a word to describe the transition to motherhood.

And like adolescence, matrescence is not a disease, but since it's not in the medical vocabulary, since doctors aren't educating people about it, it's being confused with a more serious condition called postpartum depression.

We actually see, in the breakdown of social development, that adolescence and old age look strikingly alike, because both are periods of identity confusion.

Add to that my entry into Africa's private school system, whose entire purpose is to beat the Africanness out of you, and I would have a very peculiar adolescence.

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