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Perils and Promises of Adolescence | Stephen Appea | TEDxYouth@SAIS


one of the interesting things about
science and philosophy science and the
question of can we actually can science
actually revealed things that we can’t
keep I believe the answer is yes and
we’re living it as we were watching
things that we could see years ago now
we can see that so it’s an exciting time
to live an exciting time to be educators
now I myself of not to see India and
curriculum and secondary chordae or
access our American International School
in Charlotte campus and I was I’ve been
interested in mind buying relationships
since back when mr. Dodaro in college
and reading Plato Aristotle and Socrates
and it’s interesting back then 2500
years ago of course they had things only
speculation on what what inside our
brain but now thanks to technology we
can actually see what our brain lives on
in what we can get the thought from
emotion
but we can track what
see where which part of brain is
regulating our emotions I thought so one
of the things that was very interesting
to me back in 90 was the development of
this technology called functional
resident functional magnetic resonance
imaging okay alright so what it doesn’t
basically try led flow to areas of the
brain when you feel certain things does
anybody here have ever been in at em all
right yeah okay so if you had an
accident or injury they put you in this
MRI and the FM MRI works the same way
except for it tracks the blood flow to
your brain so what the way we try to
control people’s brains when they have
problem is through basically
psychotherapy dirty drugs and fancy
night so personally I prefer with this
neuro imagery imagery techniques and
especially when you consider the life of
an adolescent now we are many of us
parents and educators that charge
America’s after school parents all over
the world and researchers all the world
are trying to figure out what is wrong
with those adolescents and the question
is what is wrong but also what is right
so there that’s why inhale
promises of the parable of lessons so
looking at some of the main problems
that adolescents face you can see it’s
quite a list and so it’s no wonder at
this time from 10 years old to 24 years
old 25 rhythm you’ve got all of these
things worried about so it’s no wonder
that there’s a lot of turbulence during
those years one of the things I was
reading was the definition of a ballista
to include when the long bones stop
chrome in the row most are full of what
when the hormones are flowing blonde or
stockroom that’s that’s a good way but
that income encompasses a lot of years
of 15 years of life many of you in this
room are in that hat stage so here’s
where and look at some of the resources
available to us right
my mood or somebody
come on this way
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okay so this is the you
this is business ting what the brain
looks like it’s an interesting resource
in new york times you can see what the
brain looks like from childhood through
the inhuman voltage so the red areas
indicate relative immaturity and blue
eyes maturity so you click on the next
page this is four years old go to nine
years old you can see that these areas
are developing you can see that so at a
certain age a shonali
parietal lobe is being developed and
that allows children to acquire math
geometry skills in addition find one
skills developed by getting into
adolescence you can see that the brain
has definitely matured when interesting
thing is that although there’s a lot of
neural connections those are not used
are pruned away
and going to let’s let’s go to 21 and
you can see that here brings money
mostly mature what there’s still room
for increases in emotional maturity that
in past each 21 that’s where the 25 on
the the target birth when you can say
that your full adult so for any inherits
in the room there’s an expression keep
them alive until the 25 Wednesday 25 and
they are fully mature adults from the
biological perspective now of course is
a many cultural cultural differences and
in this decided belief correct me if I’m
wrong but I believe that many young
people get married at age 18 19 and so
therefore it’s an interesting question
when I will get married when tyrannize
but they believe it sure there can be
differences of the problem in the
relationship that may not
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– maybe here 14-year old right now
they say that think of some of the
problems that we have as adults stand
from back when you’re 14 years old so
any problem that you have as an
adolescent and usually ingenuity to
adult now Adam to the issues about 14
year old is that the living systems are
not only helped by a really long than
prefrontal cortex so the action based on
emotions there but the control of that
is not someone like her
Obama let me get 19 you’re more able to
regulate your so when you get into the
1890 euro
the union ballot is that you’re filled
with a sense of optimism and ideals and
you’re ready to engage the world so
that’s that important it’s not all
values there’s a lot of business so let
us see this quickly a little bit about
how the living system shows emotions
that’s the amygdala which makes you can
send out chemicals to control exercises
or I hope a deal with memory but
basically the Willing system
efficiencies of emotion and it all rates
through wet zone at all the hacking
chemicals so lowly serotonin in
northland I’m toasted are
and more kind of knows that really did
this but basically when you accomplish a
goal dopamine is when you’re in pain
your body releases endorphins when
feeling trust or bonding oxytocin is
involved and when you’re feeling cried
or or sadness serotonin when were under
stress there’s wine wine is stress this
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after this video this is a quick video
about fire flames what happens during
human beings who survive and through
needing is because of the body’s ability
to meet into action when confronted by
vengeance when confronted by a threat
and alone without goes off in your brain
triggering a chain reaction to give them
up for instant action adrenaline and
cortisol humans need your Tony
kick-starting the nervous system your
heart runs faster to increase the flow
of blood to the muscles your wing
accelerates to take in oxygen muscles
touch your fists clench to conserve
energy digestive and immune systems slow
down to keep the body cool you start to
sweat you are now ready for physical
action they’ve served our ancestors well
in a charged upstate
full run away and the stress response is
also to this point on flight
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unfortunately the flight flight instinct
is still there still people with the
aggressive identity
for example is a battle phase where we
can be full of a lot of things and we
can think of strategies which are much
more effective much more men
dog
okay so I was a quick summary of the
fighter flight which is a major stressor
and it’s not just when we’re running
away from something physically in front
of us it can be a memory it can be a
thought can be an interaction so
cortisol is involved in many of these
negative or bad feelings okay so
fortunately as human beings we have
highly developed frontal cortex
neocortex and through these mechanisms
were able to control our big systems the
way that works is through the when cells
are communicating to each other they use
in your masters election a lot
electrical magnetism and chemistry
baldon air and other things a colleague
stuff colleague there’s a lot of
chemical messengers involved but the
bottom line is that the limbic system
uses chemicals to control and friends
are
so one of the exciting things for me is
that we can’t if you have total balls
out or lost the health analyst regulate
your options we can teach each other to
recognize emotions understand emotions
labeled spreadable and finally
regulation I didn’t worry baby stuff
professor I didn’t receive more practice
the founder the ruler model and he
demonstrated that when each other
lessons how to control their emotions we
can increase their chances for success
social emotional intelligence GI or
motion Pelham’s is a private choice and
basically these self-management
motivated skills are part of the new
21st century skills soft skills that are
required for settle career little girl
college I start with a brand went into
the range and there are studies now show
that we can control our emotions simply
by the flexing and looking at where
images of where this morrow brain is
being identified as a painful so basic
Roenick team airily can be controlled
simply through very protocol of flexing
in breathing
move so exciting for me to think that in
a few years
probably next generations we’re going to
be able to teach people how to do when
they’re in need so we’re not a physical
thing before somebody comes into office
and says sad press coming to going to
Guyana counselors but Gil the descanse
and Senator the new oil partly brain and
culture reduces pain like that so it’s a
brave new world and it’s exciting to
think about possibility and I hope that
when I come back you hear about one of
you to be honest they haul some students
and people
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