Announcer: So, what was the human brain originally developed to do? Well, Dr. Giedd says our brains are fundamentally designed to learn through example.
Giedd: This learning by example is very powerful and that parents are teaching even when they don’t realize they’re teaching, just by how they handle everyday aspects of their life. How they treat each other as spouses. How they talk about work. When they get stuck in traffic. How they manage their time and their emotions. And this is how most of the teaching is done. It’s not when you sit down at these special moments and have a conversation. It’s the everyday moments that really have a huge impact on how the brain forms and adapts.
Announcer: Through the work of Dr. Giedd and his colleagues, we’ve learned so much about the development of the adolescent brain. But researchers like Dr. Giedd may be entering a new golden age of research as these so-called digital natives lead us to new findings in the ever-evolving childhood brain.
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