Tag: Adolescence

The fear started when I was merging onto the freeway. It crept up my spine and tip toe’ed around my forehead. Soon my whole body felt like it was clamped into one of those heavy duty operating tables used to examine mutants and superheroes. My eyes darted around. I could taste metal. It was th...

Our brains are wired to build awareness of the social environment and our roles in it, and adolescence is the critical period when those skills are honed. To build those social skills, puberty triggers changes in the brain that make us more sensitive to social information and more driven to seek out...