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Blame My Brain: the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed

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The revised edition of this classic book contains important new research, including information about the discovery of mirror neurons and their effect on the teenage brain.

As well as updating and increasing the science references, I have also included lots of observations from teachers, who are, if you think about it, the people who work with and observe more teenagers than anyone else. So, whatever the neuroscience might say, what teachers say is relevant and useful. Nicola Morgan has that rare gift of being able to communicate science and make it fun.” Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge My qualifications After reading about the incident, participants were asked to rate Scarrow's blameworthiness and how long he should be incarcerated for his transgressions. To make sure that responses reflected participants' views concerning retributive punishment, they were asked to recommend the length of a jail sentence that would follow a fully effective program of rehabilitation, and were additionally told that the length of the sentence would have no effect on deterring future crimes. Remember the limbic system is more “in charge” during teenage years. This area gives us rewarding feelings from doing fun things, and this will often include risk taking behaviours. As this brain area is more impulsive and not linked to more careful and logical ways of thinking, there is more likelihood of riskier decisions being made. This helps explain that when you ask a teenager why they have done something risky or unsafe they may reply “because I felt like it”. How can we best support teenagers with risk taking? Scanning this region of the brain could help diagnose these conditions earlier, since behavioral and social changes tend to happen before other symptoms that manifest themselves more obviously. "A better understanding of the emotional changes that occurring in these diseases could be helpful early in the course of disease when the diagnosis might not be so obvious," Sturm said. "There could be a host of emotional or social changes that go along with the diseases."Nicola Morgan's entertaining book is written for the teenagers themselves, to explain the phase they are going through, so they can develop tools to cope with the intensity of the teenage years. It is not meant to be read as an excuse for bad behaviour though, rather as a guideline to give support. As it targets people with a short attention span, it is very simply written, without deeper analysis or scientific underpinning. On days when I am suffering from contagious teenage brain, that is just perfect, as any complicated text is likely to make me drift off and stare at the wall while unconsciously destroying my fountain pen or knitted cardigan. Protect some time every day to talk about their interests, even though these interests may not match yours From strops to tantrums to Neanderthal behaviour in boys and princess-like diva nonsense in girls - this should be read by every teenager, sibling and parent in the world. It offers a more feasible answer instead of 'that's just the way he/she is'. Greater care when referring to mental health issues. For example, in the fictional intro to the chapter on emotions, I show Matt referring approvingly to Kurt Cobain’s death by suicide and Matt’s mother being worried by the doodle of nooses in the margin of his essay. I completely removed these references in the new edition. Another example of this extra care is that, in the chapter on the risks of alcohol, I also include an extra paragraph of reassurance, in case a reader has already been involved in this. Another example is where I’m talking about schizophrenia and in the list of symptoms I refer to “having strange beliefs” and “seeing/hearing/smelling things that are not there” and I have changed those to “having beliefs that seem very strange to others” and “seeing/hearing/smelling things that other people do not”, which are more respectful and less dogmatic. Blame My Brain was first published in 2005 and updated in 2007, 2013 and 2022. It was shortlisted for the Aventis prize for science-writing and is internationally acclaimed. Over 100,000 copies have been sold since publication and it has been translated into many languages. Writing Blame My Brain changed me. I didn’t mean it to. It has changed other adults who have read it, too. Quite simply, it has changed the way we react to and think about teenagers. It also changed my career, as I now travel worldwide to discuss the implications of this and my later books on adolescent wellbeing.

Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000624 Openlibrary_edition Remember “use it or lose it” - positive interactions will further develop the thinking and reasoning parts of the teenage brain while decreasing more impulsive fight, flight and freeze responsesAs mentioned in the section on emotions, for teenagers the sense of self (knowing who you are) is particularly important. Being accepted by peers is more important than being accepted by family, and this has an impact on feelings of self-worth. Nicola Morgan's carefully researched, accessible and humorous examination of the ups and downs of the teenage brain has chapters dealing with powerful emotions, the need for more sleep, the urge to take risks, the difference between genders and the reasons behind addiction or depression. urn:oclc:record:892091196 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier blamemybrainamaz0000morg_g7h5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s29q40vkzpk Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781406346930 I want to say how much I enjoyed the book. It is excellent and just what is needed.” (Professor John Stein, Oxford University) confusion (which lesson do I teach next, and what are those students called, and have I handed out that worksheet already, and where did I put my keys/bag/coffee mug?)

Be aware that our children and young people’s routines have significantly changed and not seeing friends will likely be very difficult. An increase of free time may also mean an increase in anxiety. Have empathy for what they might be missing and don’t dismiss their anxieties even though they seem small

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I cdn'uolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg: the phaonmneel pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rseearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Scuh a cdonition is arpppoiatrely cllaed typoglycemia. Writing Blame My Brain (full title – Blame My Brain – The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed) changed my life. I’d been perfectly happy with my career as a teenage novelist, winning awards and engaging with young readers, and then, seemingly out of the blue – except not, as I’d been studying the human brain for ten years already by that stage! – I wrote the first book in the world to explore and explain the teenage brain for young people. The teenage brain differences had only very recently been discovered, notably by Jay Giedd at the NIMH in the US, and I became aware of them early on through reading that new research. And I realised this was of huge interest, reassurance and practical relevance to adolescents themselves. In the spring of 2005, Jonathan Scarrow, a high school senior in Ohio was involved in an altercation at a local bar which led to the death [of] a college student, Brandon Mahew ... " It has always been my belief that the more we understand how something – in this case, a brain – works, the better we can make it work, the more surely we can prevent things going wrong and fix them when they do. I’ve already written a whole book on this – The Teenage Guide to Life Online– so it at least needs a chapter in Blame My Brain! And I explain it in the context of the human drive to being social and making connections with other humans.

Those with dementia tend to have lowered levels of embarrassment, even when watching themselves sing along to cheesy Motown hits. Stay calm and connected to your teen as much as you can, even in the face of confusing signals from them. We’re hard wired to mirror others so the more you stay calm, the more your teen will model thisTry to keep body language as open and clear as possible, and even state calmly what you’re feeling – remember your teen might find faces or body language difficult to read and may misinterpret your feelings or intentions Nicola Morgan (2013). Blame my brain. The amazing teenage brain revealed. Walker Books Ltd. London. Thank you to readers, parents, teachers and librarians everywhere. I am beyond grateful for the success of Blame My Brain and proud to play my part in helping adolescents and their adults understand that, difficult as adolescence can often be, it is also truly fascinating, powerful and, in the words of the title, amazing.

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