Comments on: Mature Brains Led to Reckless Teenagers

By: Timm

Timm — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:03:28 +0000

Neatorama writers sure do love to print this psychiatry and psychology crap. Before I visited this web site this morning I remarked to myself how the writers here print a lot of psych crap. And I realized none of them really have looked in to it, they’re just reprinting some lame crap some other guy never investigated.

Doesn’t anyone realize that in application all this mumbo jumbo fails to produce any benificial results? If it did, we’d have a lot less social issues and few murders, ;ess crime, smarter kids, better family lives, etc. Instead we have random murder/suicides linked to anti-psychotic drugs, people imprisonned in hospitals and jails because they are labbeled “mentally ill.”

But it doesn’t and every few years psychiatrists repackage their snake oil and tell us they have figured it all out again…

By: atomicsecrets

atomicsecrets — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:58:32 +0000

I have always noticed that the girls who are most vocal about the notion that “girls mature faster than boys” are the first to get knocked up.

By: SimonSays

SimonSays — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:03:48 +0000

“The more mature the look of the brain, the more risk-taking the teenager tended to report.”

Now I wish they could relate that to Tetris playing.

Just how risky a situation is seems to be kind of subjective. Maybe the teen with a more mature brain can calculate risks better than a less mature brain, even considering the same age level.

Although they relate brain maturity to thinking speed, that has nothing to do with intelligence.

By: Bella 420

Bella 420 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:54:58 +0000

PLoS ONE…

Come all Yea People.

… Toke and pass it on (Tchup!).

… Nope (Tccchup!), was dath dah pope onda string?!?

Yea, +1! (But really, it’s @ 11).

“Pull dah string”!

By: K!P

K!P — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:40:11 +0000

12 year old: still programmed by mom and dad ideals, 18 year olds like to try more stuff themselves. And yeah apparently 18 year olds have a more mature brain…