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Elizabeth Sowell is one of the country’s top researchers on the adolescent brain.
Teenagers are paid sixty dollars per visit to get their brains examined.
Adolescence in animals is over quickly.
This is the world’s first long term study of brain development in normal kids.
Baby and teenage brains are when the brain is changing the most.
4 Questions
What is polysided?
How can you tell whether a teenager is normal or not?
What is LSD?
What is NIH?
3 Vocabulary Words
Grabble-to scratch or search around with the hands
Schizophrenia-psychiatric disorder with symptoms of withdrawal into self: a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into the self
2 Literary Terms
I have not found any literary terms! :-(
1 Overview Sentence
They have volunteers that stick their heads in an MRI machine.

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Hormones is the explanation to moody teenage behavior.
Testosterone is a hormone in boys and very little is found in girls.
Estrogen is a hormone found in girls.
Teenage brains are undergoing a dramatic transformation.
Different teenagers teach the scientist something new.
4 Questions
What does spending a lot of time in the bathroom have to do with being an adolescent?
What is LSD?
Why do parents freak out over small things like forgetting to call home?
What are neurochemicals.
3 Vocabulary Words
Pubescent-reaching or having attained
Evasive-not giving a direct answer to a question.
Annihilating-to destroy something completely, especially so that it ceases to exist
2 Literary Terms
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Scientist are trying to figure out what in the brains of teenagers are causing their behavior to change so rapidly.

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The Primal Teen Book
By: Barbara Strauch
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Barbara Strauch is the mother of two teenagers.
Children can be absolutely fine and doing what is expected of them but then they can quickly change and be doing the wrong thing.
These parents don’t understand why there well behaved children suddenly act out.
Scientist all over have been trying to figure out teenagers for ages.
These people are making a big deal out of the way teenagers act for no reason; they are making it seem like there is something crazy going on in a teenagers brain.
4 Questions
Why do all these parents think that something must be wrong with us just because we don’t want to clean something or don’t agree with them?
Why is a teenagers behavior so fascinating to adults?
Why do parents blame our moods on being a teenager?
Why don’t the parents just accept that as people sometimes we want to be alone?
3 Vocabulary Words
Inexplicably -unable to be explained or justified
Ferocious-very fierce or savage
Quibble- to argue over unimportant things and make petty objections
2 Literary Terms
“…an jokes come popping up, like pimples before a prom.”(simile)
Anecdote-page four-She tells a story about a conversation her and her friend had.
1 Overview Sentence
These parents feel that there children act certain ways because they are teenagers and they blame every bad thing on adolescence.