Teenagers seek much more approval and acceptance from their parents than from their peers.
This surprising result, from a 2021 study that shows an alignment between the brain activity of children and that of parents when faced with a given situation, comes on top of many recent works that dismantle many myths about adolescents.
"We have long considered that they were either big children or mini-adults," says Professor Ludovic Gicquel, head of the child and adolescent psychiatry department at the Poitiers University Hospital.
The current data shows on the contrary that it is a very specific period when their brain experiences the most significant developmental upheavals since their birth”.
This knowledge sheds more and more light on the psychological care of adolescents who are struggling to get through this period.
The majority of these observations have also been made in many mammals that experience…
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