Rebelling against the brain: Public engagement with the 'neurological adolescent'

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 565-573

  Choudhury, Suparna ^a   McKinney, Kelly A ^b   Merten, Moritz ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b JOHN ABBOTT COLLEGE   (Canada)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Neuroimaging; Neuroscience; Public engagement; Self understanding; Subjectivity; Teenage brain; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EDUCATION; NEUROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; STEREOTYPY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEREOTYPING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84856371181     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.029     Document Type: Article

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