Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Social Brain Development
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Abstract
The brain has evolved to understand and interact with other people. This talk focuses on how the social brain, that is the network of brain regions involved in understanding others, develops during adolescence. Adolescence is a time characterised by change – hormonally, physically, psychologically and socially. Social cognitive processes involved in navigating an increasingly complex social world continue to develop throughout human adolescence. Areas of the social brain undergo significant reorganisation in terms of structure and function during the second decade of life, which possibly reflects a sensitive period for adapting to the social environment.

About Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group and deputy director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Her group’s research focuses on brain development in human adolescence.

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Date: 21 September 2015, 11:00 (Monday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Venue: seminar room
Speaker: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)
Part of: Medical Sciences Division Events
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Audience: Public
Editor: Alison Brindle