How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain | Kashfia Rahman
TED Talks Kids and Family
English - April 11, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes - 91.4 MB Video - ★★★★ - 461 ratingsKids & Family ted tedtalks ted talks inspiration creativity tech demo education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Why do teenagers sometimes make outrageous, risky choices? Do they suddenly become reckless, or are they just going through a natural phase? To find out, Kashfia Rahman -- winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (and a Harvard freshman) -- designed and conducted an experiment to test how high school students respond to and get used to risk, and how it changes their still-developing brains. What she discovered about risk and decision-making could change how we think about why teens do what they do.