Adolescence and amgydala

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TWO HEMISPHERES

TWO HEMISPHERES

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AMYGDALA FUNCTIONS Processing emotions Memory of Emotional reactions

AMYGDALA FUNCTIONS

Processing emotions
Memory of Emotional reactions

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Adolescent Psychology Psychological Issues ↓ Recklessness and Risk-taking behaviour

Adolescent Psychology

Psychological Issues

Recklessness and Risk-taking behaviour

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SPEED FORMATION ↔

SPEED FORMATION

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SUBSTANCE ABUSE Overindulgence in and dependence of a drug or chemicals

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Overindulgence in and dependence of a drug or chemicals

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Alcohol Abuse ↓ Focus It is Drug Abuse!!

Alcohol Abuse

Focus
It is Drug Abuse!!

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Alcohol tragedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbndJKMtCk

Alcohol tragedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbndJKMtCk

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Why teens start to take drugs? Curiosity and Experimentation Peer Pressure

Why teens start to take drugs?

Curiosity and Experimentation
Peer Pressure

To Relax or to Have Fun
Depression or Personal Problems
Family Factors
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Curiosity and Experimentation The desire to try something new, different Wanting to take risk

Curiosity and Experimentation

The desire to try something new, different
Wanting to take

risk
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Peer Pressure “Most of my friends were doing it” Teens seek

Peer Pressure

“Most of my friends were doing it”
Teens seek out friends

who engage in similar activities
Desire to feel a part of a group
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Depression or Personal Problems To feel better To get confidence and

Depression or Personal Problems

To feel better
To get confidence and self-esteem
To

escape from psychological or physiological pain.
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Family and other factors Unhappy childhood Conflict with parents or teachers

Family and other factors

Unhappy childhood
Conflict with parents or teachers
To rebel: Because

parents said “NO”
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Commonly used drugs Just 20% had tried cannabis Just 2% had

Commonly used drugs

Just 20% had tried cannabis
Just 2% had tried amphetamines

for non-medical reasons
6% had tried ecstasy
2% had tried inhalants (petrol, glue…)
2% had tried cocaine
0.3% had tried heroin

According to National Drug Strategy Household Survey of Australians aged 14-19 years, in 2007

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Risk Taking in Adolescence

Risk Taking in Adolescence

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Why Take the Risk? Adolescents take more risks than children or

Why Take the Risk?

Adolescents take more risks than children or adults
The

crash rate per mile driven for 16-19 year-olds is 4 times the risk for older drivers.
Risk is highest at age 16.
The crash rate per mile driven is twice as high for 16 year-olds as it is for 18-19 year-olds.
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Why Take the Risk? Adolescents and adults reason about risk in

Why Take the Risk?
Adolescents and adults reason about risk in similar

ways
Educational interventions
designed to change adolescents’
knowledge have been ineffective
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Why Take the Risk? Evidence from Developmental Neuroscience Risk taking in

Why Take the Risk?

Evidence from Developmental Neuroscience
Risk taking in adolescence

is the product of the interaction between two brain networks:
Socioemotional Network
Cognitive Network
Both mature during adolescence
Different timetables
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Socioemotional Network Sensitive to social and emotional stimuli Important for reward

Socioemotional Network

Sensitive to social and emotional stimuli
Important for reward processing
Localized in

limbic and Para limbic areas of the brain, an interior region that includes the amygdala, ventral striatum, orbit frontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and superior temporal sulcus.
Becomes more aggressive
Driven by puberty

Why Take the Risk?

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Cognitive Network Functions such as planning, thinking ahead, and self-regulation Mainly

Cognitive Network

Functions such as planning, thinking ahead, and self-regulation
Mainly consists of

outer regions of the brain, including the lateral prefrontal and parietal cortices and those parts of the anterior cingulate cortex to which they are connected.
Gains strength only gradually

Why Take the Risk?

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Why During Adolescence? Teenagers spend so much time with their peers

Why During Adolescence?
Teenagers spend so much time with their peers
Presence of

peers makes the rewarding aspects of risky situations more significant
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Why During Adolescence? Preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed

Why During Adolescence?

Preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards
Immediate

rewards are emotionally arousing
There has been a significant drop in the age of Pubertal Maturation over the past 200 years
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Raising the price of cigarettes More attentively enforcing laws governing the

Raising the price of cigarettes
More attentively enforcing laws governing the sale

of alcohol
Expanding adolescents’ access to mental-health and contraceptive services
Raising the driving age
Parents should introduce their own restrictions

How to Reduce Risk-Taking?

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Limit the hours teenagers are allowed to drive Limit passengers in

Limit the hours teenagers are allowed to drive
Limit passengers in the

car with a teenage driver
Beginning drivers get supervision behind the wheel.
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Teen Behavioural Problems Your Teen Seems To Hate You “…Part of

Teen Behavioural Problems
Your Teen Seems To Hate You
“…Part of adolescence

is about separating and individuating, and many kids need to reject their parents in order to find their own identities." (Nadine Kaslow)
Communication Devices Rule Their Lives
"Being networked with their friends is critical to most teens." (Goldman)
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Staying Out Too Late “Part of what teens do is test

Staying Out Too Late
“Part of what teens do is test

limits, but the fact is that they actually want limits, so parents need to keep setting them.” (Goldman)
Hanging Out with Kids You Don't Like
"Teenagers are so attached to their friends that it's like criticizing them directly." (Bartell)
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Everything's a Drama "What happens is that kids feel misunderstood, and

Everything's a Drama
"What happens is that kids feel misunderstood, and

eventually they will stop telling you anything…” (Bartell)
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Teen pregnancies

Teen pregnancies

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Problems to Teen Mothers: Left out of crowds Likely to drop

Problems to Teen Mothers:

Left out of crowds
Likely to drop out of

school
Poverty
Face unemployment
Likely to face divorce
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Affects the Babies Born: A former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. M.

Affects the Babies Born:
A former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. M. Jocelyn

Elders stated that, "ninety per cent of the young men in prison between [ages] 19-35 were born to teenaged mothers."
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Letting out a secret What girls like but they wont tell boys

Letting out a secret

What girls like but they wont tell boys

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Girls like the chase: They like to be chased Don’t be

Girls like the chase:

They like to be chased
Don’t be too obsessed

with them
Give them the feeling that your still interested in them
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Talking opposites: Is they answer a question in a short phrase

Talking opposites:

Is they answer a question in a short phrase then

there is a problem.
Short phrase refers to “its okay” or “its fine”.
Learned response
Done due to feeling of insignificance
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Give them some time off They prefer it when you hang

Give them some time off

They prefer it when you hang out

with your “GUY” friends.
Don’t always stick to them.
They want some time to be with their friends
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They don’t like it when you hang around their friends Fear

They don’t like it when you hang around their friends

Fear that

one of their dirty secrets might come out.
Their friends might steal you away.
And on the contrary would like to know your friends
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Heightened jealousy They fear that you might cheat on them. The

Heightened jealousy

They fear that you might cheat on them.
The want to

have other girls just because your cant have them.
Don’t complement some other girl too much
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References: http://www.humanillnesses.com/images/hdc_0000_0001_0_img0044.jpg http://www.paulnussbaum.com/brain/hemispheres.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_psychology http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1418754315_564de0de3e_m.jpg http://files.easyfocus.net/pictures/frontal-lobe.bmp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_psychology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse http://www.helpguide.org/mental/alcohol_abuse_alcoholism_signs_effects_treatment.htm http://www.themodernreligion.com/Alcohol.gif

References:

http://www.humanillnesses.com/images/hdc_0000_0001_0_img0044.jpg
http://www.paulnussbaum.com/brain/hemispheres.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_psychology
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1418754315_564de0de3e_m.jpg
http://files.easyfocus.net/pictures/frontal-lobe.bmp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/alcohol_abuse_alcoholism_signs_effects_treatment.htm
http://www.themodernreligion.com/Alcohol.gif