Citation

Kalish R. Impair. Driv. Update 2012; 16(2): 40.

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(Copyright © 2012, Civic Research Institute)

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Abstract

Rosa Kalish is a junior at West High School in Madison, WI. In this brief essay, she reviews the conclusions of Teenagers, Friends, and Bad Decisions by Tara Parker-Pope in a NY Times (Feb. 3, 2011) article summarizing the fasttrack report done by researchers at Temple University. (Jason Chein et al., "Peers Increase Adolescent Risk Taking by Enhancing Activity in the Brain's Reward Circuitry," Developmental Sci. F1-F10 (2010).)

Keywords: Adolescent brain development, risk-taking

Language: en