How is technology us understand the teenage brain?

Science and technology have helped to understand adolescent brain structures that are different from adult brains and how these differences influence their behavior.

Explanation:

Technological advances and scientific research in the area of neuroscience highlight and explain the functioning and development of the brain of adolescents. A 13-year-old, for example, is not only too sleepy because he is “slack” or lazy. He is rather lazy because so many changes are taking place in his brain that hormones and neurotransmitters are produced that lead to certain behaviors, thoughts and feelings.

Understanding what's going on in the teenage brain is critical to guiding and educating you. It is not because your brain has a structure called the amygdala - which is not the throat - that is enlarged and more active at this stage and which is responsible for the more emotional reactions rather than the more rational reactions that we should allow the youngster to take the car of your parents in the night mute. Or even if you don't wake up for the first class because you stayed on the Internet - which gives you a lot more pleasure - until the early hours.

Through technology and research, it is possible to explain such behaviors through at least two brain regions, which are most evident in this age phase. One of them, which is part of the limbic system - region responsible for emotions among others - is the one that includes the amygdala. The other region is called the Prefrontal region.