The Teenagers Brain

An extremely important part of the brain is the grey matter, gray matter contains neurons which help your mind communicate with your body to perform a physical action. As you grow older the volume of grey matter increases then declines.

The volume of grey matter is at its highest when your a child then slowly declines over the time the child grows. In the early ages when the teenager is growing up start to gain synapse helping information pass between different nerve cell, a synapse acts as a junction between two nerve cells.

When you turn into an adult you start a process called pruning, pruning is a process where you start to lose synapses, it's important to exercise your mind so you prune less. As you mature your connections to different parts of the brain will increase, increasing the speed in which your body can transmit pulses.

It's also important that you get plenty of sleep, adolescence brings with it a change of sleep regulation, inadequate sleep is a major contributor to depression and have a major affect on the maturing child's attitude. Since I am still maturing myself these are just the things that I did the research on, the rest is left for me to learn while I grow up.