Summary of Articles September 2021 Blakemore S.J., & Choudhury, S. (2006). Development of the adolescent brain: Implications for executive function and social cognition. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 47 . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01611.x From this article, the biggest takeaway I got is that even though adolescents act like adults many times and they seem to have high levels of cognitive functioning, they are still developing in the areas of brain capacity, behavior and cognition (Blake more and Choudhury, 2006). In other words , they are not yet fully capable of using cognition and brain capacity to regulate behaviour in the way adults can. Additionally, adolescents are dealing with massive levels of hormone secretions that affect their mood and physical development while their prefrontal cortex is increasingly able to fire at higher speeds through the process of myelination (ibid). The prefrontal cortex a...