Search


	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Researchers explore the adolescent brain
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2017-01-30 18:00:00
	Description:		There's been a lot of interest in how media is affecting the brain during adolescence, but there still isn’t enough data for researchers to determine whether or not it’s beneficial or harmful to the teenage brain. UCLA’s Adriana Galván is an expert on adolescent brain development and says that’s in part because the media itself is still relatively new. "And so we don’t have the long-term data over many years to determine what it’s doing to the brain, but certainly we do know that it’s another form of teenagers having more social interactions, having great reactions emotionally to things that they see on media or read about, but we don’t really know what it’s doing to their brain yet – but stay tuned, a lot of people are doing that research." Adolescent neurobiology generates so much interest because the teen years are such a key period of developmental transition. UCLA is even leading the UC system's multi-campus, multi-disciplinary Consortium on the Developmental Science of Adolescence.
	Total Play:		0