Adolescence is a period with many brain 🧠 and behavioural changes. One of these behavioural changes is that youth begin placing greater importance on their friends over their family. This shift from family to friends (called social re-orientation) is thought to be related to some of the neural changes we see in adolescence.
In this post, directed lab student Paige Stockley breaks down a study that looked at youth’s brain activity in response to emotional expressions 🎭, and how this brain activity mapped onto adolescents’ feelings of closeness to their peers 👭 and their parents 👩👧 (aka, an index of their social re-orientation!)
Thank you to the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at @nationwidekids @fondsrecherchequebec for making studies like this possible!
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