{"id":3708,"date":"2013-09-23T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:49","slug":"smart-teenage-brains-may-get-some-extra-learning-time-shots-health-news-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/09\/23\/smart-teenage-brains-may-get-some-extra-learning-time-shots-health-news-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/09\/23\/224387862\/smart-teenage-brains-may-get-some-extra-learning-time\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3710\" alt=\"2010-01-13_23-15-54_wm\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2010-01-13_23-15-54_wm-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2010-01-13_23-15-54_wm-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2010-01-13_23-15-54_wm.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have long accepted that there are specific critical periods in animals as they grow up &#8211; we know a fair bit about how dogs grow up. Doesn&#8217;t surprise me a bit that there are similar periods in a human&#8217;s life as well. It&#8217;s just that our complexity (including the complexity of our surroundings) makes it less noticeable.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve thought for a long time that in a sense the brains of really intelligent people run &#8220;hotter&#8221; than others. It would make sense that the plasticity of their brains would be greater. I predict that we will eventually discover that the really intelligent have brains that never really &#8220;settle&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhile I don&#8217;t pretend to have any understanding of the mechanisms, I also think that this plays an important role in mental illness, especially schizophrenia &#8211; the brain just runs too hot.<br \/>\nHaving a Formula 1 brain in a Studebaker body is bound to have some consequences.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3708'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3708);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3708);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3708);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots &#8211; Health News : NPR. We have long accepted that there are specific critical periods in animals as they grow up &#8211; we know a fair bit about how &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/09\/23\/smart-teenage-brains-may-get-some-extra-learning-time-shots-health-news-npr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,351,24],"tags":[57,214],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","category-teaching-learning","tag-elearning","tag-intelligence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-XO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3850,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/04\/05\/where-ive-been-online-apr-5-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":3708,"position":0},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (Apr 5, 2014)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Gamifying the classroom is a bad idea | Al Jazeera America \" I was part of a generation of children who learned about dysentery through a video game. 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