9 Modules

5. Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)

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About this course

Find out what's happening in your brain! Your brain changes as you hit adolescence. Going to sleep later? See how the changes in your brain explain some of the changes in your behaviour.

This course has a voiceover.

1. Welcome and introduction

3 Units

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1.1 What is this course about?
1.2 What changes have you noticed?
1.3 Every cloud has a silver lining

2. Your brain development

4 Units

2.1 How do we know about the teenage brain?
2.2 The main changes
2.3 The prefrontal cortex
2.4 The amygdala

3. Reading faces

8 Units

3.1 The amygdala and reading faces
3.2 Knowing what you are feeling
3.3 The experiment
3.4 About the results
3.5 What could this mean?
3.6 What can parents do to help?
3.7 What can you do to help?
3.8 Some more ideas

4. Risk taking

4 Units

4.1 Risk and brain development
4.2 Risks: positives and negatives
4.3 The accelerator and the brake
4.4 So who has to be the brake?

5. Risk taking and friends

7 Units

5.1 Risk and friends
5.2 An experiment
5.3 The results
5.4 More results
5.5 How does the brain affect risk taking?
5.6 Teenagers and gangs
5.7 How can we help our brain?

6. Sensitive to rejection

6 Units

6.1 You and your friends
6.2 Research
6.3 An experiment
6.4 Teenagers' reactions
6.5 Why does this happen?
6.6 What can help?

7. You and sleep