“Adolescent Brain Development and Drug Abuse”
1. Adolescents seem to show diminished sensitivity to intoxication. Alcohol promotes social competitiveness, novelty seeking and feel more pleasurable social experience, less shy, in teens than adults. Alcohol affects the adolescent brain by causing poor impulse control, favoring low-effort while still seeking thrills, and a heightened sensitivity to social benefits of intoxication. It also seems to do more brain damage in their frontal cortex and in their working memory,10 % smaller volume in the hippocampus.
“Homeroom Zombie”
2. When sleep deprived an adolescent is likely to have more learning, health, behavior, and mood problems. After puberty, the teens biological clock shifts, making it difficult for them to fall asleep before 11 pm. Environment does not help their sleep either. Multitasking, TV, internet, videogames, phone calls and text can keep a teen from getting much needed sleep. Caffeine and energy drinks late in the day and late-night parties keep the teens up late also. …show more content…
Developing a pre-sleep routine would be feasible, it doesn’t take a lot of effort, pack your backpack, have a snack, brush your teeth and wash your face, done, go to bed. Monitoring late-night activities is feasible if your child is willing to work with you, I have heard many parents who collect their child’s phone at a certain time. I think the best way would be to provide a good example. A lot of times teens will follow if our actions follow our words. Keeping a regular sleep/wake schedule is not very feasible if your child works or has an active social life, which is part of the issue of multitasking. Setting rules isn’t very feasible if you have a child who works late or will push the rules as far as they can, once again I feel the child would have to want to work with you or respect the parent enough to not drive after a certain
1. Adolescents seem to show diminished sensitivity to intoxication. Alcohol promotes social competitiveness, novelty seeking and feel more pleasurable social experience, less shy, in teens than adults. Alcohol affects the adolescent brain by causing poor impulse control, favoring low-effort while still seeking thrills, and a heightened sensitivity to social benefits of intoxication. It also seems to do more brain damage in their frontal cortex and in their working memory,10 % smaller volume in the hippocampus.
“Homeroom Zombie”
2. When sleep deprived an adolescent is likely to have more learning, health, behavior, and mood problems. After puberty, the teens biological clock shifts, making it difficult for them to fall asleep before 11 pm. Environment does not help their sleep either. Multitasking, TV, internet, videogames, phone calls and text can keep a teen from getting much needed sleep. Caffeine and energy drinks late in the day and late-night parties keep the teens up late also. …show more content…
Developing a pre-sleep routine would be feasible, it doesn’t take a lot of effort, pack your backpack, have a snack, brush your teeth and wash your face, done, go to bed. Monitoring late-night activities is feasible if your child is willing to work with you, I have heard many parents who collect their child’s phone at a certain time. I think the best way would be to provide a good example. A lot of times teens will follow if our actions follow our words. Keeping a regular sleep/wake schedule is not very feasible if your child works or has an active social life, which is part of the issue of multitasking. Setting rules isn’t very feasible if you have a child who works late or will push the rules as far as they can, once again I feel the child would have to want to work with you or respect the parent enough to not drive after a certain