After reading these chapters, my view has not changed, rather, I now have deeper knowledge of what particular shifts in the adolescent hormonal structures as well as new connection between the amygdala and the frontal lobe of the brain that causes such rash fluctuations in emotions. For example, when some of my female students get upset with their friends, it takes much longer for them to calm down or even speak to each other again. This is attributed to the hormone Progesterone that causing the the hormone Cortisol to run loose. Additionally, the connection between the amygdala and frontal lobes of the brain is in its infancy stage, which is the cause of much of the name calling and impulsive horse play I observe in many of y male
