The quest to solve the mysteries of teen minds

What’s actually going on in a teenager’s head? What happens in peoples’ brains as they transform from children into adults? What makes young brains so quick to pick up, say, instruments or languages? And why on Earth do teenagers make some of the absurd choices they make? What were they even thinking?!

These questions might sound like the domain of parents or teachers, but they’ve also been explored by scientists. 

And a fair warning that should be pretty obvious: Scientists don’t...