08-05-2022, 03:28 PM
Came across this really interesting article about the differences in the brain of young males. Its hardly surprising that they do daft things.
Worth reading the whole article.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1285025...to-trouble
“I had his friends carry him inside the house and thought ‘that must have been a powerful message’. It was for the girls, but the boys went back to doing the same stupid s...”
Neuroscientist Nathan Wallis says boys’ brains are encouraging them to do just that. While all adolescent brains shut down the frontal cortex, the part that deals with decisions and consequences, in boys that tends to manifest in risk-taking.
Andrew Hopgood puts it a bit differently, though the sentiment is the same.
“Teenagers are literally not all there. That frontal cortex gives us self-discipline and if you’re not taught it as a youngster, because your frontal cortex doesn’t start developing until your late teens, you’re in trouble.”
Walker has been NZ’s principal youth court judge since 2016 and is quick to point out that although the number of young men he sees in court outweighs that of girls, he doesn’t see them as more problematic.
“There’s a different pathway into their offending and a different pathway out is often required. I don’t think we do very well in giving gender-specific programmes.”
Worth reading the whole article.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1285025...to-trouble
“I had his friends carry him inside the house and thought ‘that must have been a powerful message’. It was for the girls, but the boys went back to doing the same stupid s...”
Neuroscientist Nathan Wallis says boys’ brains are encouraging them to do just that. While all adolescent brains shut down the frontal cortex, the part that deals with decisions and consequences, in boys that tends to manifest in risk-taking.
“We think that’s a bad thing because it leads to car accidents and stuff but on the other side it leads to innovation and creativity.”
But couple that risk-taking with the fact male brains reach maturity between the ages of 22 and 32, while for females it's between the ages of 18 and 24, and it’s no wonder we see them stuffing up all over the place.Andrew Hopgood puts it a bit differently, though the sentiment is the same.
“Teenagers are literally not all there. That frontal cortex gives us self-discipline and if you’re not taught it as a youngster, because your frontal cortex doesn’t start developing until your late teens, you’re in trouble.”
Walker has been NZ’s principal youth court judge since 2016 and is quick to point out that although the number of young men he sees in court outweighs that of girls, he doesn’t see them as more problematic.
“There’s a different pathway into their offending and a different pathway out is often required. I don’t think we do very well in giving gender-specific programmes.”
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)