SAN DIEGO — Teenagers’ brains are wired to confront a threat instead of retreating, researchpresented November 10 at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting suggests. The results may help explain why criminal activity peaks during adolescence.
Kristina Caudle of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and colleagues tested the impulse control of 83 people between ages 6 and 29.
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