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Brain Storm/ Can't figure out why teens act the way they do? Some scientists suggest it may be all in their heads
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The Gazette
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March 11, 2002
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When rapper Will Smith uttered "Parents Just Don't Understand"
in his 1988 pop hit, he gave voice to a centuries-old problem: the
inability of parents and society to relate to adolescents.
Descriptions of the teen years as traumatic, crazy and a season of
"storm and stress" date to Plato. We didn't understand them in
ancient Greece, and we don't understand them today.
Well, maybe now we can.
Scientists believe new studies on the adolescent brain put us
closer to understanding teens than Plato did. The research comes with
some caveats - it's new and largely untested - but it suggests that
the erratic, sometimes irreverent behavior of adolescents is the
direct result of growth and changes ...