Young Teens Hard

Young Teens Hard
This article is more than 12 years old
This article is more than 12 years old
UK research into teenagers' brains shows their mental processes are like those of younger children
Many students are unable to concentrate long enough to finish their studies. Photograph: Alamy
Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning
© 2022 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. (modern)
Parents who despair over their teenagers' lack of concentration in class, inability to sit still long enough to finish homework or plan ahead, should take solace. Their children are not being lazy or careless – they are hapless victims of neurobiology.
New research has found that teenagers' brains continue developing far longer into adulthood than previously thought. Adolescents may look like young adults but their brain structure resembles that of much younger children, according to the study to be published in the Journal of Neuroscience on Wednesday.
"It is not always easy for adolescents to pay attention in class without letting their minds wander, or to ignore distractions from their younger sibling when trying to solve a maths problem," said Dr Iroise Dumontheil of University College London's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, one of the authors of the research. "But it's not the fault of teenagers that they can't concentrate and are easily distracted. It's to do with the structure of their brains. Adolescents simply don't have the same mental capacities as an adult."
Using MRI scans, the brain activity of adolescents were monitored as they tried to solve a problem in their heads while ignoring environmental distractions.
The scans revealed an unexpected level of activity in the prefrontal cortex, a large region at the front of the brain involved in decision-making and multitasking. This indicated that the brain was working less effectively than that of an adult.
"We knew that the prefrontal cortex of young children functioned in this chaotic way but we didn't realise it continued until the late 20s or early 30s," said Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who led the study. "What we discovered was that the part of the brain needed to complete this sort of process is still very much developing throughout adolescence. This means it continues to do a lot of needless work when making these sorts of decisions."
Chaotic thought patterns are a result, she said, of teenagers' brains containing too much grey matter – the cell bodies and connections which carry messages within the brain. As we age, the amount of grey matter in our brains decreases.
"What our research has shown is that there is simply too much going on in the brains of adolescents," said Blakemore. "The result is that their brain energy and resources are wasted and their decision-making process negatively affected."
Adults, on the other hand, have less grey matter, said Blakemore. "This means that neural transmissions travel more efficiently between brain cells, so the brain works more effectively."

This website no longer supports Internet Explorer, which is now an outdated browser. For the best experience and your security, please visit
us using a different browser.

Social Links for Hannah Sparks

View Author Archive

Get author RSS feed

captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected
Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED
No compatible source was found for this media.
Session ID: 2022-09-08:85b0d45b1978b98125b6f394 Player Element ID: nyp-brightcove-player-1
Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque
Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps
Reset restore all settings to the default values Done

Filed under

body shaming

censorship

sexual harassment

TikTok

viral videos

9/9/21

This story has been shared 153,702 times.
153,702

This story has been shared 122,461 times.
122,461

This story has been shared 119,137 times.
119,137

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Email

YouTube

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.
Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.
This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
A highly religious Colorado man is being dragged on social media for allegedly sexually harassing a group of bikini-clad teens — all in the name of his “Lord and savior.”
At a Fort Collins reservoir over Labor Day weekend, an adult man known as Logan Dorn online, whose age is as-yet unclear, was filmed haranguing the young women, most of whom are reportedly aged 18, for wearing bikinis at a beach.
One of Dorn’s targets, 18-year-old Mia, filmed the uncomfortable exchange and posted the now-viral footage to TikTok , where it has racked up 2.4 million views.
Dorn, meanwhile, has claimed that he acted in “righteous anger.” (Yes, he has his own religion-themed TikTok , modestly dubbed “THE DWELLING PLACE WHERE YOU CAN ENCOUNTER GOD.”)
“Take young eyes into consideration. They don’t need to see pornography right in front of them. You’re flaunting your stuff,” he told the group of women as they filmed.
“Please leave us alone. Kindly,” one of the women asks in an effort to quickly and politely disengage with Dorn.
“That’s a thong and that’s a bra,” he points out.
From behind the camera, one of the women reiterates, “Please go away… don’t look at me.”
“You look around and you’re the only thing that sticks out,” he insists.
Dorn continues digging his proverbial heels in the sand, saying that America boasts “free will” and “freedom of speech” — meaning he had a right to be there, telling the women to cover up.
He then added that he’s speaking not only for the sake of democracy, but on behalf of the will of God. “If men of God don’t stand up, then our society’s gonna go down the drain because there’s no morality,” he says.
The women snicker at his proclamations all the while.
“And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you,” he continues.
“There’s gonna come a day when you’re gonna come face-to-face with God,” he adds.
Meanwhile, the woman who appears to be in Dorn’s party approaches the preacher and directs him away — but not before giving the women her own two cents. “It does matter what you guys wear, not because of what he says, but because you need to value yourself,” she tells the women.
Mia’s footage, parts one and two , have since racked up over 3.5 million combined views across social platforms, namely TikTok. Many following the story have come to the support of the bikini-clad women.
Viewers also observed that Dorn appeared unfazed by the fact that a man in a Speedo swim suit — an equally revealing number — was sunbathing nearby.
One of the young women in the group, named Maddie , commented on a video after seeing fans pile-on Dorn. “We should have thrown sand at him!” she replied. “I’m so sorry. We didn’t think about it.”
“The fragile masculinity, off the charts,” added Mia in a follow-up video.
Now, the God-fearing beachgoer is speaking out to clarify his perspective: “I’m not gonna apologize, I’m gonna continue to stand on the truth, I’m gonna continue to stand on the word of God.
“My side of the story is, I was at a reservoir or a lake and I was with family members, all different ages, from my age to college age, all the way down to … a 2-year-old girl,” he says, in one of three separate responses on TikTok, all of which combined have received less than 800 “likes” in support.
He then reveals that someone with his group wished to relocate due to “college-aged women showing too much.”
“Right then and there, I felt just a righteous anger come over me, and also just a boldness by the Holy Spirit just to go and confront these ladies and to speak to truth that, ‘Hey, what you’re wearing is not OK for a 9-year-old boy or a 6-year-old boy,'” he said.
He claimed he was coming from a position of personal experience — having struggled with an apparently dire pornography habit. “Being introduced to pornography at a young age, it destroyed me and I [had] in that moment just a righteous anger to defend and protect young eyes,” he explained.
“You can’t find your worth in your body, that the physical never satisfies, that there’s gonna come a day when you’re face to face with God… you know, things of that nature,” Dorn continued.
“Our society is on such a downcline [sic] of morality, pornography and lust is at an all time high,” he added.

Stocking Sex Com
Nasty S T
Booty Suck

Young Teens Hard

Report Page