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| Preface | |
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| Teens and their Brains | |
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| A Work in Progress | |
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| Tile Frontal Lobes: Captains of the Ship | |
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| Beyond the Frontal Lobes | |
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| White Matter Matters | |
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| Show Some Emotion | |
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| The Reward System and the Pursuit of Pleasure | |
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| To Stress or Not to Stress | |
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| The Straight Dope on the Dopamine Connection | |
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| Mental Health | |
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| Stress | |
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| From Stress to Anxiety | |
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| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | |
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| Depression | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Anorexia Nervosa | |
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| Bulimia Nervosa | |
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| Schizophrenia | |
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| Food | |
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| Food for Thought | |
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| The Trouble with Sugar | |
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| The Trouble with Caffeine | |
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| How Many Calories Do Adolescents Need? | |
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| When Does Overweight Become Obese? | |
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| Anorexia and Bulimia | |
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| What Should Teens Eat? | |
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| Sleep | |
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| This Is Your Brain on Sleep | |
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| Setting the Brain's Clock | |
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| How Much Sleep Do Teens Need? | |
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| The Importance of Bedtime | |
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| Tips for Improving Teen Sleep | |
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| Driving | |
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| Driving: A Whole Brain Exercise | |
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| Driving on the Wrong Side of the Brain | |
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| Why Bad Accidents Happen to Good Teens | |
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| Graduated Licensing | |
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| Keeping Teen Drivers Safe | |
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| The Digital World | |
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| This is Your Brain on Social Media | |
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| Social Animals and Cyber Peeps | |
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| Lost and Found in the Land of Games | |
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| The Terrible Power of Viral Humiliation | |
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| I Heart You | |
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| The Pornographication of the Teenage Brain | |
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| Computing Time on the Computer | |
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| Sex and Sexuality | |
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| The Battle of the Teenage Sexes | |
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| The Real Story on Hormones | |
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| I Don't Like That Attitude! | |
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| The Word of the Day Is: Sex | |
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| Abstinence or Contraception | |
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| Pornography | |
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| Talking to Teens About Sex | |
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| Drugs | |
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| The Power of Reward | |
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| The Addictable Teen Brain | |
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| From Stimulants to Opiates: The 411 on Individual Drugs | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Marijuana | |
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| Nicotine | |
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| Narcotic Pain Medications | |
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| Cold Medicines | |
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| Ritalin and Adderall | |
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| Salvia | |
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| Mdma (Ecstasy) | |
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| Meth Amphetamine | |
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| Cocaine | |
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| Keeping Your Teen Off Drugs | |
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| Violence | |
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| Bang! Pow! Pop! | |
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| Violence Short-Circuits Brains and Lives | |
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| The Dangers of Desensitization | |
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| Bullying | |
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| Television Violence | |
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| Video Game Violence | |
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| Minimizing Violence | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Helping Teens Take Healthy Risks | |
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| What More Can We Do? | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Further Resources | |
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| Index | |