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How we grow up : understanding adolescence / Matt Richtel.

ISBN: 9780063282063 (hardcover)
Physical Description: x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, [2025]
Copyright: &copy;2025

Summary:

"The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself. Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help"-- Provided by publisher.