Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Ebook, Dream Psychology, by Sigmund Freud. The Adolescent Brain | Conversation | Edge. [SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE:] I'm particularly interested in the development of the adolescent human brain. The reason I became interested in the adolescent brain is twofold. Firstly, we know that most adult mental disorder has its onset at some point during the teenage years, so if you look at disorders like anxiety disorders, depression, addictions, eating disorders, almost all of them will have their onset some time during the teenage years. Schizophrenia, as you might know, is a very horrific psychiatric condition that's characterized by delusions, like being paranoid and thinking that people are out to get you, and hallucinations like imagining that people are talking to you inside your head, hearing voices.
That has its onset at the end of adolescence, normally in the early 20s, on average. So that's one reason why I think it's really important to study the adolescent brain. The kinds of experiments we do are both brain imaging. The question is why? My dad is Colin Blakemore. Collaborative Problem Solving Approach by Dr. Ross Greene | Lives in the Balance. Improve Your Memory by Combining Information with Bizarre Images.