The Pre-Teen Brain

"Any parent or middle-school teacher could tell you that adolescents often have, shall we say, a resistance to learning. In fact, behavioral scientists have shown that certain cognitive processes slow down through puberty. In video game tests of spatial learning, for example, middle-schoolers did not perform nearly as well as fifth-graders.

But now scientists say they have pinpointed the neurological mechanism that most likely clouds the adolescent brain, along with a possible trick for spurring those 'tween and teen neurons to start firing again."

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