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Sex and drugs and self-control: how the teen brain navigates risk

It’s not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour.
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Teen jumps across roof gap to another building.

Teenagers in Norway practise the urban sport parkour. Credit: Andrea Gjestvang/Panos

Cole Skinner was hanging from a wall above an abandoned quarry when he heard a car pull up. He and his friends bolted, racing along a narrow path on the quarry’s edge and hopping over a barbed-wire fence to exit the grounds.

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Nature 554, 426-428 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02170-3

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