1. Modelling. Children model their parents’ behaviour, and teens model each others’ behaviour, as you yourself observed, and friends model friends, etc, etc. “I want to do what you’re doing” is a fundamental tenet of primate logic. So this is a powerful means for a type of behavio...
With ADHD, the symptoms are thought to be because in the prefrontal cortex, thelevels of the neurotransmittersnorepinephrine and dopamine, aren’t quite what they need to be. Neurotransmitters are the chemicals in the brain that help brain cells communicate with each other. Everything we do depen...
I needed to discharge some energy. And maybe y’all can suggest some safe ways of doing that. It really isn’t about activity because I could do dishes or the wash and still just want to cry. It’s about the social wiring inside of us that we are having to do something very unnatur...
The annual prevalence of ecstasy, amphetamines, and cocaine was also higher among male than female adolescents [33,34]. Among adolescents, gender differences in drug use can be explained by girls being more highly monitored by their parents and boys being more frequently exposed to deviant peers ...