Arnold+Gutierrez

Type in the content of your page here. Over the past 25 years, neuroscientists have discovered a great deal about the architecture and function of the brain. Their discoveries have led to huge strides in medicine, from pinpointing the timing at which children should be operated on for vision problems to shedding light on the mechanisms that cause such diseases as schizophrenia. Much of the early focus of the research was on the early years of development or on diseased brains. Now, with the advent of new imaging techniques, researchers are able to examine normal brains and brains of people throughout their lives.Any parent of a teenager knows the brain of a 13-year-old is different than that of a 9-year-old. Pinning down those differences in a scientific way has been elusive—until now. Dr. Jay Giedd, of the National Institute of Mental Health, examines recent findings from magnetic resonance imaging of the teen brain and explores the implications these findings have for parents, teachers, society