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Division Conference and Feedback- Giving,Barkada Kontra Droga (BKD) In-Change
June 27, 2015
Philip Neri Angelo L. EspinosaBKD – Division President
The brain continues to develop into adulthood and undergoes dramatic changes during adolescence.
K - 6 Grade 7 – Senior High
20 year old person
Blue represents maturing of brain areas
One of the brain areas still maturing during adolescence is the prefrontal cortex11 -
the part of the brain that enables us to assess situations, make sound decisions, and keep our emotions and desires under control. PARENTAL CONTROL/ CEO over the brain reward system.
• Involved in emotion processing and reward processing. And the regions found within the Lymbic system is HYPERSENSITIVE to the reward feeling.
• Hypothalamus• Master regulator of almost all major drives
and motives we have, including hunger, thirst, and sexual behavior.
• Hippocampus• Key in memory systems. Events and
information that are important enough, are established as lasting memories.
• Amygdala• Involved in processing emotion and
memory. Determines the emotional significance of stimuli, especially when they evoke fear.
Lymbic System
• Adolescent have difficulty in decision making (Steinberg, 2004)– In lab: similarities in adolescent & adult decision
making processes
• Adolescents are uniquely vulnerable to risk taking– originality & sensation seeking increase dramatically at
puberty– Development of self-regulation lags behind
• Risk taking as group behavior (Steinberg, 2004)
WHAT TO EXPECT?
• “on second though..” not in the repertoire
• Parents must use their judgment to protect teens
• Parents must anticipate – teens need help with this.
• Less than optimal planning and judgment
Expect impulsivity, poor judgment
and emotionality.
Etymology from www.etymonline.com
• addict (v.) 1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.
Different Drug, Different Effect
The mouse party
Reduction of D2 receptors is associated with the dysfunction of an additional structure in the brain’s reward system, the Prefrontal Cortex. Problems with prefrontal cortex are associated with lack in inhibitory control or fore taught.
BEST LESSONfrom BKD Experience (to date)
You do not have control over the building blocks (genes)
of who you are, you DO HAVE A SAY in who you will
BECOME.