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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was born in 1974. She is a Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group and Deputy Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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- Language : English
International Standard Book Number-10 : 0857523708
International Standard Book Number-13 : 978-0857523709
Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
Dimensions : 6.38 x 1.02 x 9.45 inches
Top reviews
Bill R
Great audio version. Read with precision .
February 12, 2021
The British accent does wonders for listening and accents the text beautifully, The book is a wonder of writing and explaining science in a unique way from the point of view of an self-inquisitive autistic mind. It’s worth both a listen and a read.
Marco Lalama Gross
For everyone
January 26, 2019
Wish everyone could read this book. It enlightening in the sense that it affirms and dispels myths and common knowledge about adolescence. A must for parents, educators, policy makers and anyone interested in understanding the youth. It gets a little dense towards the middle.
Evita Choquette
Easy read, well explained
December 14, 2018
The section of the book that I liked best was one that a reader rarely encounters in other books on the subject. In that section, Professor Blakemore reminds the reader of the current limitations of neuroscience, the problems of doing good scientific research, and the issue of mistaking association for causation.
Jo Anne Koch – Owens
Don ‘ t doubt how great u r !
January 2, 2019
Triggers hidden evolving excellence !
Jose Ramon Gonzalez
Unerstanding the adolescent mind-brain
September 11, 2018
Well structured, friendly wrting for lay readers
Neu Hemenway
disappointing
June 17, 2018
This book promised to help me understand what’s going on in my teenage grandchildren, but doesn’t. I’m returning it.
Aimee
Excellent Neuroscience Primer
May 15, 2018
Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is an excellent basic neuroscience primer for people with a little exposure to topic. On the surface it may seem a little daunting due to the amount of research that is cited for the lay person but Blakemore makes the information accessible to anyone that is interested in the subject by not over using neuroscience jargon and clearly defining all terms that are needed.
The book gives you a good overall view of the subject by devoting its first few chapters to providing a basic background on the psychosocial and developmental issues that adolescents face. The next few chapters detail some of the different structures in the brain, what those structures do, tools used to examine the living brain (MRI, fMRI, PET Scan), the differences between the brains of children, adolescents, and adults and the implications of those differences. The lasts chapters delve into more implications of the developing brain and rates of development, what can happen when things go wrong, research, and implications and possible interpretations of that research.
A few of the topics I found most interesting where:
1) How individuals vary on the rate at which different structures in the brain develop and what the implications those different rates may have not only on risk taking behavior of the individual but what that may mean for the individual when they are an adult. (prefrontal cortex rate of development compared to the rate of development of the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens)
2) The type of marketing and messages that teenagers are more likely to respond to based on the fact that they are less impacted by fear of adverse consequences than adults.
3) The research on how brains develop differently in people with different mental conditions like schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, etc.
4) The effects of sleep deprivation on teenager’s brains.
5) Possible improvements that could be made to our educational system based on their specific developmental needs.
In short, this book is an excellent resource for parents frantically trying to understand their children, educators, other professions that deal with teenagers, or to those interested in neuroscience. The author is very knowledgeable and takes a compassionate view of people going through the formative period of life.
I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Dennis Coates
Adds nothing to what’s been published years ago.
September 1, 2018
The development of the adolescent brain is an important topic. Young people have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to wire their prefrontal cortex for crucial critical thinking and executive functioning skills. So when a new book comes out about this, one expects some new insights.
Unfortunately, this book, years after books like Jensen’s The Teenage Brain, adds nothing to the more than dozen books on the topic that preceded it. One wonders why the author would go to the trouble if she wasn’t going to add something useful to the body of knowledge. I have to say I’m disappointed.
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Dr Tim O’Brien
An accessible, optimistic and illuminating book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2019
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore has written a book that deserves to be the winner of the Royal Society Award.
‘Inventing Ourselves’ is elegantly written and contains insight after insight about the teenage brain. The author avoids the pitfall of making the book too ‘academic’ and has clearly considered the audience that she is communicating with. Sometimes books like this can be dry [and even appear to be written solely for other academics] but this is not the case here. This is a book that is very easy to engage with as a reader. You do not have to be a neuroscientist or an academic to understand the content. The book is so accessible that you just have to be curious about the brain – especially the adolescent brain – and you will definitely enjoy it. The author occasionally adds a personal touch by referencing her own context as a child, as a student and as a professor. I really like this aspect of ‘Inventing Ourselves’. it invites you into the life narrative of the author and adds a welcome dimension to the book.
‘Inventing Ourselves’ will help you to understand why adolescents think and behave the way they do. Along the way it provides you with an evidence base from which to understand how adolescence is a critical developmental stage in understanding who we are as individuals and as social beings. I strongly recommend this excellent book.
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Inge
Interesting, and easy to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2019
A useful explanation of the research so far in one handy book that is easy and quick to read. As a teacher and parent of teenagers, I found this very useful in identifying possible reasons as to how teaching, learning and parenting strategies work or don’t work. It has certainly encouraged me to read deeper into this subject.
Although I have recommend this book to my colleagues, I did so with the warning that there are many personal anecdotes that become a little too distracting.
Nic
Mid range quality text
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2021
While psychology texts are often a hard thing to follow this one starts off well but seems to lose trajectory of focus. While I appreciate the author tried to make the text more accessible by examples of personal anecdotes, it somehow feels like these drive her away from the point she is trying to make or the science she is trying to illustrate. Not really sure what the main points of the book are to be honest.
Stefan
Good parts about general neuroscience development
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2019
Certainly an interesting book. You find out many about the brain and neuroscience in general. What I miss is a clear focus on the claimed subject.
Sadly the author follows a current trend to use the book to tell us her story. She is far from being the only one but it is a nuisance.
Ott
Insightful. Recommend to anyone who works with adolescents
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2019
This book is well written and offers deep insight into what makes teeneagers tick. It doesn’t offer any clear cut solutions on how to deal with adolescents, but it gives you a lot of what you need to know to develop the approaches you might need.
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