![]() ![]() Siegel, a professor of clinical psychiatry at UCLA, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, is also author of the book Mindsight and co-author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child. ![]() Instead, he asks you to consider that during adolescence the brain is undergoing a massive and necessary integration of functions that will have long-lasting impact that solidarity with peers is evolutionary, giving the group the strength to deal with outside threats (read: predators) that shared experiences will enable their generation to be leaders and shape the future and that adolescents are at the peak of their creative prowess and courageousness.įurthermore, how we navigate the adolescent years has a direct impact on how we'll live the rest of our lives. turns the common negative perception of adolescence on its head. In his new book Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Dr. ![]() When your teen sneaks out to a party with a boy, instead of watching a movie at a girlfriend's house like she told you she'd be doing, would it help you to know that the power of the adolescent mind has the spark of emotion, social drive and push toward novelty that may save life on our planet? ![]() Click here for tickets and other information. Dan Siegel will appear at Seattle's Town Hall on Monday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m. ![]()
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