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What Is The Link Between Risk Taking In Adolescence And Brain Development? Risk & Teen Brains

What is the link between risk-taking in adolescence and brain development? In this video, you’ll hear from Clinical Program director Dr. Jess Shatkin as why kids are born to take risks. Learn more about how to support teens and young adults with substance use and mental health challenges by getting our free parent resource guide👇 https://sandstone.formstack.com/forms... For substance use or mental health support for teens and young adults call (855) 958-5511 or live chat with us at https://www.sandstonecare.com/ Learn more about Dr. Jess Shatkin👇 https://www.drjesspshatkin.com/born-t... So a lot is going on in adolescence. And the reason I called my book on this topic born to be wild, is not only that it was catchy, but it's also the fact that kids are built by evolution to take these risks. Imagine our species without taking risks. How would we ever survive? If there was no one to eat that mushroom? Or to eat that animal? And to know if it was safe? How would we ever survive if there was no one? To leave that little clan in the cave and go off and have sex with someone else further away? How would we ever have children were healthy because you can't have sex with your sibling we learned a long time ago, that doesn't result in healthy babies. So we must have to find new people, new water sources, new nesting places, new farmlands? How do we do that without risk takers, we must have risk takers. So built into our genetic code is risk. And we vary in terms of how much risk we're going to take. But we take risks. And there's all sorts of neurobiological things going on to push us in that way. And they are the brain is partially mature at 13 1415. But not fully mature, the parts are all there, and they're all growing. But the amount of control that the thinking sort of executive CEO of the brain has what we call the frontal and prefrontal cortex over the emotional parts of the brain, the limbic center is limited. So we act more impulsively. And again, for evolutionary purposes, that makes sense, Mother Nature is really happy to throw some 1000s of us away every year or millions in order to save the species. Well, some gotta die so the species can live on. And that's what Mother Nature has built in, we know that some are going to die because they're going to jump off the bridge to impress their peer, because they're going to try that mushroom that turns out to be poisonous, oh, well, but you know what others will see and learn from that. And as a community, or as a species, we will survive because no one will eat that mushroom again. So this is the this is part of the story. Another part of the story is we have higher levels of dopamine in our brain during adolescence. By this I mean about 13 to about 25 that period of time than we ever will again, and dopamine people think about as being a reward neurochemical. And it is, in a way, what it really is, is the promise of reward, it's the possibility of reward if not just reward if you if you like steak, and you have a bite of steak, bam, that's your reward, the dopamine stops pretty much after that you're not continuing to get huge amounts of dopamine, it's through dopamine draws you to a behavior so that you've tried to steak, you like the flavor of it. And now every time you smell grilling meat, dopamine goes off, give me that steak. Every time you walk past the the meat in the butcher, at the grocery store, you're like, ooh, dopamine goes, get that that's gonna feel good later. And why does dopamine do this? Why does it elevate at such high levels during adolescence for things like food and sex and other pleasurable things, because that's what's going to allow us to survive, we can't survive without eating. We can't survive without having sex. And you know, when you talk to a seven year old about a second grader, I'm sorry about how a baby is made. And they learned that a penis has to go into a vagina. They're like, Oh, my God, but you kidding me? I'm never having a baby. My son was five when you heard that story, because my daughter was eight. And so he was around for it. And he said, that's it. I'm adopting. And five years of age what presence of mine, because what five year old would ever think that putting a penis in a vagina makes sense? That makes absolutely no sense. That's something that you have between your legs, you take a bath, you see it, sometimes your sibling and that's it. And you don't want anything to do with that you pee comes out of there, and poop comes out of the other side. And like that's it. But as you get to be 1112 1314 really intriguing stuff. #addictionhelp #Mentalhealthpodcast #Sobertribe