The Adolescent Brain - Demystifying the Second Window of Opportunity with Ron Dahl
In our last podcast we spoke with Nikola Balvin about The Adolescent Brain compendium, what it is, how it came about, and why it’s important for research on adolescents today. Listen to the brief overview here: https://soundcloud.com/unicef-office-of-research/the-adolescent-brain-overview In this follow-up podcast, we dive a bit deeper into the research with one of the compendium's contributors, Ron Dahl, on some of the new ideas to come out of the publication. We’ll hear from Ron about emerging research on adolescent neuroscience today, including what modifiable developmental processes are, and we'll discuss how adolescence creates opportunities for positive and negative spirals. Ron Dahl is the Director of the Institute of Human Development and the Director of the Center of the Developing Adolescent as well as a Professor of Community Health Sciences, all at the University of California at Berkeley. To download the compendium and learn more about the symposium and adolescent neuroscience research, please visit: www.unicef-irc.org/adolescent-brain