Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

"Any parent of teenagers will enjoy this book. What is it that happens to your child’s brain as they enter adolescence—their mood swings, their need for intense friendships, the excessive risk taking . . . Blakemore is a superb neuroscientist, and also, it turns out, a remarkably engaging and talented writer. Drawing on her own research, she digs into the teenage brain and explains how it undergoes such a remarkable transformation. Teenagers have been much maligned, but there is a biological reason for their behaviour and we really should cut them some slack. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter"