Would you like to learn more about adolescent brain development? Our instructors recommend the
following resources as good sources of information that are widely accessible and easily understood.
Web-based resources
National Institute of Mental Health
• http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-still-underconstruction/index.shtml
Office of Adolescent Health Adolescent Development E-Learning Modules
• http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/resources-and-publications/learning/index.html#
PBS Special: Inside The Teenage Brain
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
TED Talks:
• Sarah Jayne Blakemore https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolesc
ent_brain
• Nadine Burke Harris https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_acro
ss_a_lifetime
Print resources
Harvard Magazine
• September-October 2008 “The Teen Brain” by Debra Bradley Ruder
National Geographic Magazine
• October 2011 “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs
• Special Publication 2016 “Your Brain: A User’s Guide. 100 Things You Never Knew”