A01=Barbara Strauch
Author_Barbara Strauch
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Product details
- ISBN 9780747568483
- Weight: 205g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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As Strauch reveals, scientists now recognize that there is a biological component to why teenagers are so likely to slam the door and hide out in their rooms at the least provocation. There is a reason they are articulate and idealistic one moment, and incoherent and self-centered the next, or are so attracted to drugs, alcohol and high speeds. And it's not just hormones. New studies show that far from stopping growing at seven or eleven, the brain undergoes a complete rewiring - particularly the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that governs logic and emotions - in adolescence. WHY ARE THEY SO WEIRD? offers a well-informed and entertaining roadmap to that exhilarating, infuriating and sometimes terrifying time.
Barbara Strauch is the health and medical science editor for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Prior to that she was a reporter, feature writer and science writer for fifteen years, including at NEW YORK NEWSDAY, where she directed the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Union Square subway crash. She is also the mother of two teenage daughters.
