Now we know why surly teenagers storms off in a huff after being told to tidy their bedrooms. The medical name for the part of the brain associated with teenage sulking is "superior temporal sulcus." Adolescents do not put the part of the brain that considers others' feelings to full use, scientists have found.
It seems our neural decision-making processes mature quite slowly, and researchers think this might help to explain typical teenage behaviour. The adolescent brain undergoes massive changes and does not reach maturity until 20 or 30 years old. Oh my!
Source: Seeing the Teenager in the Brain
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