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This is one of the fastest examples of cultural transmission, where learned behaviors are passed between unrelated individuals of the same species.

But these euphoric episodes exceed ordinary feelings of joy, causing troubling symptoms like racing thoughts, sleeplessness, rapid speech, impuslive actions, and risky behaviors.

With only confusing signals as a guide, people with bipolar disorder develop abnormal thoughts and behaviors.

Certain medications like lithium can help manage risky thoughts and behaviors by stabilizing moods.

So how do you make sense of the biology of our best behaviors, our worst ones and all of those ambiguously in between?

The challenge is to understand the biology of the context of our behaviors, and that's real tough.

Those who don't study the history of extraordinary human change, those who don't study the biology of what can transform us from our worst to our best behaviors, those who don't do this are destined not to be able to repeat these incandescent, magnificent moments.

In other words, the very type of brain activity that's responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence and that are so terrifying to us parents of teenagers.

They know that like the rest of us, when teenagers don't get the sleep they need, their brains, their bodies and behaviors suffer with both immediate and lasting effects.

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously, on a collective level.

And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about, and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness.

And when we do these kind of things, when 300 million people do unconscious behaviors, then it can add up to a catastrophic consequence that nobody wants, and no one intended.

All these behaviors are ageist.

In an organizational setting, this requires new behaviors, and with each new behavior, there is giving up on something old as well.

We can actually take these rules that we've learned from nature and combine them and create entirely new collective behaviors of our very own.

These studies show that certain things that parents do are correlated with good outcomes for children, but we don't necessarily know those behaviors caused the good outcomes, or whether some other factor is getting in the way.

We can only do several behaviors right now.

So I'm going to first introduce you to the mimosa, not the drink, but the Mimosa pudica, and this is a plant that's found in Central America and South America, and it has behaviors.

And apart from making them more social and docile, we’ve done little to alter their natural behaviors.

We know now that they're capable of imitating behaviors that they see.

And these really aggressive behaviors, for the most part, are directed against individuals of the neighboring social group.

And one of the greatest governmental delusions of all time was something that happened in the early days of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, as we now know, and are well aware of their behaviors from Katrina.

Here are a few quotes indicating that: "Man has no nature," from the historian Jose Ortega y Gasset; "Man has no instincts," from the anthropologist Ashley Montagu; "The human brain is capable of a full range of behaviors and predisposed to none," from the late scientist Stephen Jay Gould.

But if you instead look at what is common to the world's cultures, you find that there is an enormously rich set of behaviors and emotions and ways of construing the world that can be found in all of the world's 6,000-odd cultures.

I know it's a very strong word, but it helped us to reframe and understand the behaviors that we were seeing.

And what I discovered was that many of them exhibit the same behaviors that I saw in six-year-old D. So I can't help but wonder: if these kids would've learned healthy coping strategies early on when times get tough, would they now be able to survive in a regular high school?

But when you change those behaviors, your brain gets more blood, you think more clearly, have more energy, your heart gets more blood, as I've shown you.

Habituation explains how our brains adapt to some behaviors, like lying, with repeated exposures.

And also, because they are teenagers and their brains are still underdeveloped, they became more interested and excited in thrill-seeking behaviors.

It shows them that the natural and necessary fear and guilt that protect them from unsafe situations actually become numb when they repeatedly choose risky behaviors.

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