现在一些专家提出，我们应该利用青少年的大脑对朋友在场的敏锐感知，并借助它来改善教育。
Now some experts are proposing that we should take advantage of the teen brain's keen sensitivity to the presence of friends and leverage it to improve education.
而青少年的大脑运作似乎与此不一样。
青少年的大脑功能与行为方式
那么中年人的大脑比青少年的大脑具备什么优势？
So what kinds of things does a middle-aged brain do better than a younger brain?
泰普特的团队在喝酒青少年的大脑中发现了受损的神经组织。
Tapert's team found damaged nerve tissue in the brains of the teens who drank.
然而，您现在正在看的文章，不管怎样，告诉了一个关于青少年的大脑不同的科学叙述。
The story you're reading right now, however, tells a different scientific tale about the teen brain.
他进而指出，青少年的大脑有一种驱人行动的特性：血气旺盛，随时准备开始紧张，无所不包的学习。
He adds that there is a unique feature of the teenage brain that drives much behavior during adolescence: the teen brain is primed and ready for intense, all-consuming learning.
这意味着，青少年的大脑有较强的感知恐惧与焦虑能力，但在需要冷静推理时，却发育得不那么充分。
This means that adolescents have a brain that is wired with an enhanced capacity for fear and anxiety, but is relatively underdeveloped when it comes to calm reasoning.
匹兹堡大学精神病学比阿特丽斯·卢纳教授用神经影像研究青少年的大脑，用一个简单的测试阐述这个学术问题。
Beatriz Luna, a University of Pittsburgh professor of psychiatry who USES neuroimaging to study the teen brain, used a simple test that illustrates this learning curve.
青少年的大脑同样对催产素（另一种神经激素，（在各种其他事物中）使人从社会关系中感受到更多回报）很敏感。
The teen brain is similarly attuned to oxytocin, another neural hormone, which (among other things) makes social connections in particular more rewarding.
NPR的另一则报导说，青少年的大脑正在发育，他们一心多用会导致大脑“断电”……因为没有足够的能量供应。
Multitasking in teens' developing brains, according to another NPR report, 'causes a kind of brownout in the brain... because there just isn't enough power to go around.
科学家们在观察青少年的大脑时发现，大脑在工作的时候是不断地在膨胀、生长、收缩、成型的，即便当青少年已经达到了25岁。
Scientists found that when they watched the brains of teenagers, the brains were expanding and growing and cutting back and shaping themselves, even when the kids are 25 years old.
通过扫描300名14岁至24岁的青少年的大脑，他们希望鉴别出随着年龄的增长，控制冲动和情感行为的大脑线路有什么变化。
By scanning the brains of 300 people between the ages of 14 and 24, they hope to identify how the wiring that controls impulsive and emotional behaviour changes as they get older.
最近，位于圣地亚哥的加利福尼亚大学的神经科学家苏珊·泰普特领导的壹项研究，比较了酗酒青少年与不喝酒青少年的大脑扫描资料。
A recent study led by neuroscientist Susan Tapert of the University of California, SAN Diego compared the brain scans of teens who drink heavily with the scans of teens who don't.
大脑完全定型之前正是开始学习吉他或者学习一门新语言的良好时期，如果你告诉他们这些，他们不一定会听，但只须明白青少年的大脑成长需要更多时间和经历，这或许可以帮助父母和孩子双方顺利地度过青春期。
Before the brain is fully molded is a great time to take up the guitar or learn a new language. Not that teenagers will listen if you tell them this.
由于香烟中的尼古丁会改变大脑的化学性质，从而可能影响情绪，因此吸烟可能会导致青少年抑郁。
Since nicotine in cigarettes changes brain chemistry, perhaps thereby affecting mood, it is likely that smoking contributes to depression in teenagers.
青少年在被同龄的人观察时，大脑中两个与奖励相关的区域比独处时表现出更剧烈的活动，成年人则不然。
The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.
她的发现有助于转变我们通常的观念——一旦渡过青少年时期之后，我们的大脑便开始走向恶化。
Her findings have helped to transform conventional ideas about how the brain starts to deteriorate once we reach our teenage years.
一项新的研究表明，青少年的反社会行为可能是由于大脑反常造成他们的行为过激。
Antisocial behaviour in teenagers may be due to brain abnormalities that cause them to be aggressive, according to a new study.
同时，科学家们发现，青少年过激和反社会行为越严重，他们的大脑活动就越异常。
The scientists also found that the more severe the aggression and antisocial behaviour in the teenagers, the greater the level of brain abnormality.
正常情况下，当儿童成长到青少年，大脑会发生显著的改变。
Normally as children grow into teenagers the brain undergoes major changes.
多大程度上能追溯青少年之怒——此一人生时期大脑之中进行的变化？
To what extent can the anger of adolescence be traced to changes going on in the brain at this stage of life?
青少年很少会被描述为性情稳定，因此当他们的迅速变化的大脑内部有种不变的现象时，就引起了神经系统科学家的注意。
Teens are rarely described as stable, so when something about their rapidly changing brains remains placidly unaltered, neuroscientists take notice.
“我认为功能性连接能告诉我们很多大脑的机制，并将最终解释患有自闭症的儿童和青少年的特定行为的原因。”Muller说。
"I think functional connectivity can tell us a lot about the brain mechanisms that ultimately explain why children and adolescents with autism behave in the way they do," Muller says.
Hayden说我比大多数青少年都理智些，因为每次我都用批判的眼光看待广告，在我大脑中我创造了能增强自我控制区域的模式。
Hayden says I could be better off than most teens, because every time I think critically about how ads work, I create new patterns in my brain that strengthen the self-control regions.
Aamodt和同行SamWang在他们的书《孩子的大脑世界欢迎你》中解释了从婴儿到青少年脑部的发育过程。
Aamodt and fellow neuroscientist Sam Wang explain how the human brain develops from infancy to adolescence in their new book, Welcome to Your Child's brain.
对青少年而言，这个过程似乎从大脑后部开始，再移向前端。因此，至关重要的控制中心——前额叶皮层——就成了最后才被涉及的区域。
In teenagers, it seems that this process starts in the back of the brain and moves forward, so that the prefrontal cortex, that vital center of control, is the last to be trimmed.
脑部扫描显示，那些一周玩游戏超过九个小时的青少年大脑中会产生更多的“感觉良好”多巴胺。
Brain scans showed those who played for more than nine hours a week produced more of the "feel-good" chemical dopamine.
这些实验结果让人觉得，我们的大脑似乎没有理性模型那么完美，反而更像是一个轻浮的青少年：好斗、容易分心、自我意识淡薄。
After all this the human brain looks less like a model of rationality and more like a giddy teenager: flighty, easily distracted and lacking in self-awareness.
这些实验结果让人觉得，我们的大脑似乎没有理性模型那么完美，反而更像是一个轻浮的青少年：好斗、容易分心、自我意识淡薄。
After all this the human brain looks less like a model of rationality and more like a giddy teenager: flighty, easily distracted and lacking in self-awareness.
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