Jeannie Von Stultz, psychologist and Director of Mental Health Services for Bexar County Juvenile Probation, explains how and why adolescents think differently. In this first video of a 3-part series she discusses emotional recognition and the development of physiological, emotional and cognitive brain centres
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, talking about the reorganisation of the brain during the teenage years, both in terms of structure, function and related behaviour
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks about the differences between the prefrontal cortex in adolescents and that of adults
Carol Worthman, professor at Emory University, talks about risky adolescent behaviour, as part of the Evolution Institute/Francis McClelland Institute workshop on this topic
A discussion of the impact of culture on the teenage brain.
Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development
Adolescent risk-takers - The power of peers
June Gruber, professor at Yale University, talks about emotion development in adolescence
This episode of the popular series Crash Course Psychology looks at the troublesome stage of adolescence, considering identity, individuality, and The Breakfast Club