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the slow-motion mutiny where the brain renovates itself while still living in the house
means The transitional stage of life between childhood and adulthood, roughly spanning the teenage years, marked by physical, emotional, and social development.
from From Latin adolescere, 'to grow up, to ripen,' built from ad- ('toward') and alescere ('to be nourished, to grow') — itself rooted in alere, 'to feed.' The same Latin family quietly gives us 'adult,' which is just the past-participle version, adultus, meaning 'grown up.' So adolescence is, by its very bones, the one still growing, while an adult is the one already grown — same verb, caught at two different moments. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period.
- brain rewiring
- prefrontal cortex not fully wired until mid-twenties
- sleep shift
- circadian clocks delay, making teens biologically nocturnal
- risk math
- reward centers mature before brakes do
- recent invention
- the term was coined only in 1904
- growth spurt
- bones can lengthen faster than muscles keep up
tanner stages — marshall tanner's 5-stage classification system (1962) measuring physical pubertal development in adolescents