Agnapostate
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come on, puss.. don't balk NOW! if those numbers are in the fucking abstract the THEY MUST BE WITHIN YOUR FUCKING REACH TO POST.
lets see em, sicko.
Post them yourself, fucker. Or maybe you'd like to post this instead.
But hasnt brain research advanced dramatically in recent decades? Yes. To the point that definitive pronouncements can be made about how brain physiology makes teenagers act? Not even nearly. Brain research is at a very primitive stage. Consider the cautions of leading scientists, which have received little attention. Public Broadcasting System, for example, did not broadcast its interviews with leading scientists in its Inside the Teenage Brain show (January 31, 2002), but it did post them on PBSs website as background. These detailed interviews provided a completely different picture than the breathless broadcast.
Asked, how much do we know about the relationship between the anatomy or biology of the brain and behavior? Daniel Siegel of UCLAs School of Medicine, co-investigator at UCLA's Center for Culture, Brain, and Development, and director of the Center for Human Development in Los Angeles, answered: We are just beginning to identify how systems in the brain work together in an integrated fashion to create complex mental processes. Kurt W. Fischer, Professor of Education and Human Development and director of the Mind, Brain, & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was even more emphatic. We do not know very much! he said, adding:
"Key to our understanding is how the brain functions as a systemfor example, how neural networks grow and function across brain regions. Most of the recent advances in brain science have involved knowledge of the biology of single neurons and synapses, not knowledge of patterns of connection and other aspects of the brain as a system. In time the new imaging techniques will help scientists and educators to understand how brain and behavior work together, but we have a very long way to go.
When neuroscience connects to scientific knowledge about cognition and development, it can be helpful in a global way, supporting the cognitive developmental knowledge; but it cannot provide specific guidance on its own. With the excitement of the remarkable advances in biology and neuroscience in recent decades, people naturally want to use brain science to inform policy and practice, but our limited knowledge of the brain places extreme limits on that effort. There can be no "brain-based education" or "brain-based parenting" at this early point in the history of neuroscience! (emphasis mine)."
Note well: our limited knowledge of the brain at this early point in the history of neuroscience means it cannot be used to inform policy and practice or to establish brain-based parenting. Richard Lerner, director of Tufts University's Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, agrees brain research is "in its infancy and its way too premature to make those specific links between biology and behavior. These strongly-worded cautions from the leading researchers diametrically refute the reckless demagoguery flooding the news media and policy forums. As does the practical reality everyone can see: If authorities hyperventilations flooding the press about how dangerous teens are were valid, every adolescent in the United States would be dead five times over.
I didn't think so, fucker.