“I NEVER asked to be born, life’s so unfair!” Familiar words to most parents with teenage children, usually followed by the loud slamming of a door. But now scientists believe they have found a cause of adolescent angst. Nerve activity in the teenaged brain is so intense they find it hard to process basic information, rendering them emotionally and socially inept.
Robert McGivern and his team of neuroscientists at San Diego State University found that as children enter puberty, their ability to quickly recognise other people’s emotions nosedives. What’s more, this ability does not return to normal until they are…
