If you work long enough surrounded by 600 teenagers, your brain adapts to their way of (non)thinking. He was rushed to hospital, but never regained consciousness, and finally died two days later from massive head trauma. My new 'how to cope' guide will not be in use for a few years yet but I will hold it close when the time comes. It is not meant to be read as an excuse for bad behaviour though, rather as a guideline to give support.

This means there is a great opportunity to learn and develop new skills and knowledge, and to become more ‘expert’ at some things.

Nicola Morgan's entertaining book is written for the teenagers themselves, to explain the phase they are going through, so they can develop tools to cope with the intensity of the teenage years. As well as updating and increasing the science references, I have also included lots of observations from teachers, who are, if you think about it, the people who work with and observe more teenagers than anyone else. Yes, it existed but until the smartphone became mainstream and affordable, it wasn’t something enough people had in their pockets to make an impact on life. Our ability to make choices — and sometimes mistakes — might arise from random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical noise, according to a recent study from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. In the spring of 2005, Jonathan Scarrow, a high school senior in Ohio was involved in an altercation at a local bar which led to the death [of] a college student, Brandon Mahew .

Those with dementia tend to have lowered levels of embarrassment, even when watching themselves sing along to cheesy Motown hits. It is aimed at teenagers and the adults around them, the book is written in a way that both groups will find interesting and helpful but never feel talked down to or overloaded with information.For teenagers, there are some specific pressures which can make this period of isolation from friends and school even more challenging.