This Is Your Brain on Puberty: Study Probes Why Learning Slows for Teens

It's not that teenagers aren't trying to learn. (Well, OK, some of them definitely aren't trying.) But the distractions that come with being a teenager are exacerbated by the fact that teens just don't learn as quickly as either young kids or adults, and a new study of mice that appears in Science points to specific brain changes that might help explain why. Seeking to study spatial learning during puberty, the team