Resources and Reading from

The Teen Brain and Today’s Chemical Culture

Held Thursday March 4, 2010
Brookline High School Auditorium
 
The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124119468&ps=cprs

Teen Drinking May Cause Irreversible Brain Damage
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122765890&ps=rs

Hardwired for doom: Brain, mind and fate
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/01/hardwired_for_doom_brain_mind.html?ps=rs

A Parent’s Guide to the Teen Brain
http://www.drugfree.org/teenbrain/index.html 

Cause for Concern: National Study Shows Reverse in Decade-Long Declines in Teen Abuse of Drugs and Alcohol
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/Research/Teen_Study_2009/National_Study
 
2009 Partnership/MetLife Foundations Attitude Tracking Study (PATS): Key Findings http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/Research/Teen_Study_2009/TRACKING_STUDY_PATS_2009

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WEBSITES

www.CasaColumbia.org

http://www.drugfree.org/teenbrain/

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/teenage-brain-a-work-in-progress-fact-sheet/index.shtml

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/teenage-brain1.htm