How the Teenage Brain Learns

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Videos

Dr. Frances Jensen, "The Teenage Brain"
Politics and Prose, January 21, 2015 

Q & A with Dr. Frances Jensen
C-Span, January 23, 2015

Dr. Frances Jensen, "The Teenage Brain, Part I: What Makes the Teen Brain Unique?”
Boston Children's Hospital, September 11, 2008

Podcasts

"Learning Machines: The Wired Teenage Brain" 
To the Best of Our Knowledge, Shannon Henry Kleiber

Articles

"The Teen Brain"
Debra Bradley Ruder, Harvard Magazine,  September-October, 2008

"The Developing Teenage Brain: Q & A with Frances Jensen"
School Administrator, Liz Griffin, September, 2017

"Here's All The Scary (Yet Awesome) Changes Happening In Teenagers' Brains
MTV News, Marty Beckerman,  January 8, 2015  

"Secrets of the Teenage Brain"
The Guardian, The Observer, Family section, Katie Forster, January 25, 2015

"The Teenage Brain: Scaffolding the Brain for Lifelong Learning"    
Getting Smart,  Frances Jensen, May 3, 2015

"The Teenage Brain You’re Sending to College" 
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Frances Jensen, April 29, 2015

“Plastic Fantastic”           
Pennsylvania Gazette, Joann Greceo, August 27, 2015

"The Teenage Brain: What Parents Need to Know"          
Grown & Flown, interview with Frances Jensen, date unknown