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SUMMARY:The Adolescent Brain - Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore\, Institute
  of Cognitive Neuroscience\, University College London
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Adolescence is a time characterised by change - hormonally\, p
 hysically\, psychologically and socially. In the past decade\, research ha
 s shown that the brain develops both structurally and functionally during 
 adolescence. Large scale Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies have dem
 onstrated development during adolescence in white matter and grey matter v
 olumes in several brain regions. Activity in some brain regions\, as measu
 red using functional MRI (fMRI)\, also shows changes between adolescence a
 nd adulthood during a variety of social and decision-making tasks. Recent 
 experimental evidence also points to adolescence as a period of change in 
 terms of behaviour such as taking another person’s perspective\, risk-ta
 king\, peer influence\, decision-making and introspection \n\nBiography\nS
 arah-Jayne Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Pro
 fessor in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the Developmenta
 l Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  Sarah-Jayne studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (1993-19
 96) and then did her PhD (1996-2000) at the UCL Functional Imaging Lab wit
 h Professors Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert\, investigating the self-monit
 oring of action in healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia. Sara
 h-Jayne has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education. S
 he sits on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience\, e
 ducation and lifelong learning\, and the Royal Society Vision for Science 
 and Mathematics Education 5-19 Committee. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the
  journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. \n\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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