Transcript The Teenage Brain - Como Secondary College

Stress On The Teenage
Brain!!
By Amy Brittain
What Stresses The Teenage Brain?
• For the first time scientists have identified
a hormone that switches from soothing to
stressful during puberty.
• Teenagers have a lot of stress and peer
pressure of what to wear, how to dress
even how to do there hair.
• Teens do not think of the consequences of
how any actions will make them or other
people feel.
How Emotions Stress Out
Teenagers?
• Emotions and memory are chemically
based. A change in chemistry can change
an emotion, and the chemical state can
last for a long time beyond the initial
change.
How Do You Know When Your
Stressed Out Mildly?
• Maybe your stomach hurts the night
before something important like a test is
happening the next morning.
• Your heart might race or you get butterflies
in your stomach when you have to give a
speech to the class.
• You could get sweaty palms if you meet
new people or scared of something.
How Do You Know If Your Really
Stressed Out?
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Moving to a new school.
Moving to a new town.
Or failing a class in school.
These situations can give you a negative
effect causing difficultly sleeping or you
could even get depression from it all
happening to you even at once.-
When Stress Might Be Able To
Motivate Teenagers?
• You could perform much better in a
running race.
• Or even doing some sort of play.
• Even working really hard to finish an
assignment or project.
• Stress can effect different stuff in
teenagers even your emotional, mental
and physical health.
Bibliography
• http://neurons.wordpress.com/tag/teenage
-brain/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s
hows/teenbrain/interviews/galinsky.html
• http://neurons.wordpress.com/tag/teenage
-brain/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s
hows/teenbrain/interviews/galinsky.html