3 Quotes by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Adolescence is a formative period of life, when neural pathways are malleable, and passion and creativity run high. The changes that take place in the brain during this period offer us a lens through which we can begin to see ourselves anew.

Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today – but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

If a child has ‘slipped through the net’ and hasn’t done well during childhood, it’s not too late to start intervening and providing extra support in adolescence.