Recent neuroscience research findings have overturned previous beliefs about brain development during adolescence. Discuss at least one of these findings and its implications
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: It used to be thought that there was an overproduction (or exuberance) of synaptic connections in prenatal development and infancy followed by synaptic pruning. Now, it has been discovered that this overproduction of synaptic connections occurs in adolescence as well, especially in the frontal lobe. This is why adolescents eventually get better at planning, making good decisions and solving problems—their brainsarenot fully developed until much later than originally thought.
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