MIND CANDY

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MIND CANDY
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Whos Minding the Adolescent Brain?
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NEW SCHOOL

• Neuropsych What can we possibly learn today
  that we did not know yesterday?
• Cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles in respected
  journals
• 5-10 year lag showing up in textbooks

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BRAIN IS

• MIND KNOWS

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BRAIN PHYSICAL CHEMICAL

• BIOLOGICAL TEMPLATES
• Subterranean Chemistry
• Neurotransmitters Hormones
• CORTICAL REGIONS
• Interconnectivity Functional Autonomy
• DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCING
• Brainstem/Midbrain Limbic System (MLS)/
  Prefrontal Cortex

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Pure Chemistry in Synapses
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BRINDY brain-mind-body
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM1. Pineal 2. Pituitary 3.
Thyroid 4. Thymus 5. Adrenal 6. Pancreas 7.
Ovaries 8. Testes
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Mind knows PUBERTY

• MIND EXERTS a powerful hold over behavior due
  to the intoxicating pursuit of SEXUAL ADVENTURE
  (PUBERTY) via BRAINS MLS
• ADDICTION UNWANTED PREGNANCIES
• IMPULSIVITY STDs ENTITLEMENT
• GRANDIOSITY BULLETPROOF DANGEROUS
• STIMULATION HYPERSEXUAL
• Puberty sets up the brains LEAPING
• BEFORE LOOKING mindset.

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Adolescent Brain The DSM

• Over 50 of the DSM is devoted to
• Adolescent maladjustments
• conduct disorders oppositional defiance
• adolescent antisocial PD
• disorders of learning, development,
  communication, eating, sleep, mood, personality,
  sexuality and gender, paraphilias, impulse
  control
• Bullying COMMON THREAD in adolescent
• angst expression of violence

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Not all Bullying is ViolentRELATIONSHIP BULLYING
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Bullying Devastates Self-EsteemPhysicalboys
Relational exclusion--girls
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Being a Target of Bullying is a common thread in
Violent Offender Profiles in Males
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BRAINWISE

• Obviously, Parents EducatorsDO NOT see the
  same world as our GEN Y teenagers
  studentsperceive the world from TWO DIFFERENT
  brain regions
• Age-wise, experience-wise, parents teachers
  (Prefrontals) are NOT OPERATING out of the same
  brain region as adolescents and students (MLS)
• What can be done?

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KNOWLEDGEPRECOCIOUS DEVELOPMENT

• MENTAL PHYSICAL COMPONENTS OF ADOLESCENCE are
  being
• REINVENTED everyday in Journals!
• As MLS DETANGLERS we must be
• on the same page with adolescent
• neuropsych to decipher
• THE PRETZEL OF GEN Y

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Adolescent Neuropsych The Giedd Study

• Growth progression of the BRAIN is
  Lower-to-Higher, Back-to-Front within cortical
  regions
• Infants are born into an illuminated Brainstem.
  At puberty, MLS is garishly illuminate.
  Prefrontal development via The Adult Brain lags
  behind
• Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC)
  Strategizing/Appropriate Responses
  Orbitofrontal Ventromedial regions
• LAG 5 to10 years behind the MLS

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The PrefrontalsThe Adult Brain

• TOP Dorsolateral
• Plans/Solving Problems
• MID Orbitofrontal
• Selective Attention Decision-making
• BOT Ventromedial
• Ties Emotional Meaning to Thinking

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Decade of the Brain 1990s 1990 to 2006 16
YearsHow much of what Journals know end up in
Textbooks?
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Gen y Todays Teens

• GEN Y 1980 TO 1994 Oldest 26 Youngest 12
• GEN Y Todays Teenagers Has Society
  Changed?
• GEN X 1965-1979 Oldest 41 Youngest 27
• GEN X Teenagers between 1978 1992
• Baby Boomer Born 1946-1964 Ages 42 to 60
• BB Teens 1959 1977
• By generations Have Teenagers been
• exposed to the same society?

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MISSING THE BOAT

• Baby Boomers mostly collected Masters Degrees in
  1970s late 1980s
• GEN Xers in 1990s early 2000s
• Youngest GEN Yers will enter grad school around
  2015they have the most potential of being
  exposed to Adolescent Neuropsych but its too
  late!
• ADOLESCENT NEUROPSYCH is not considered to be au
  courantin the mainstreamof educational
  preparedness

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Whos REQUIRED TO take Adolescent Neuropsych?

• ED PSYCH majors?
• GENERAL PSYCH Majors?
• TEACHERS?
• COUNSELORS?
• ADVISORS?
• Adolescent Neuropsych is so hidden within
  curricula in teacher counselor preparation is
  DOES NOT EXIST
• Are professors qualified to teach AN?

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ADOLESCENT NEUROPSYCH RESEARCH

• HAS ALREADY
• REINVENTED
• ADOLESCENCE
• Parents, Educators, Counselors
• dont know it YET!

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TWO CONDITIONS

• POP CULTURE JOURNALS are ALWAYS FAR, FAR AWAY
  AHEAD of Education
• Educational Conundrum School is not cool among
  Todays Youth. Innovation in Education is an
  oxymoron
• We can CHANGE this!

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Societal Change

• Since the 1950s
• social change has been notable
• MOST REMARKABLE
• We can become dated real quick!

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Pop Cultures Best Songs Oscar

• Boomer Teens 1959 Oscar High Hopes by Sammy
  Cahn recorded by Frank Sinatra
• GEN X Teens 1978 Oscar Last Dance by disco
  queen Donna Summer, the same year Saturday Night
  Fever soundtrack became an all time best seller
• GEN Y 2005 Its Hard Out Here for a Pimp from
  Three 6 Mafia2nd hip-hop song to win for Best
  Song (1st song was EminemsLose Yourself in
  2002.
• Song Lyrics mirror pop culture values

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Views of Adolescence

• have remained
• behind the times
• UNREMARKABLE

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Adolescent Neuropsych

• Puberty
• concludes with reproductive maturity
• Adolescence
• concludes in prefrontal adulthood
• WHAT AGE IS THAT?
• Adults are adults because WE RELY MORE on
  PREFRONTALS and adolescents are adolescents
  because they RELY MORE on the MIDBRAIN where
  Mind Candy is plentiful. BRAINSTEM/MLS/PREFR
  ONTALS

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The BRAIN CANDY MODEL

• The Candy Cane
• Represents
• The
• Brainstem

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BRAINSTEM

• BOT RAS
• TOP L Pons
• BOT L Medulla
• R Cerebellum
• Form, structure, rituals, survival dominating
  rivals
• Competitor-Rival can
• become Predator-Prey

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MLS MIDBRAIN LIMBIC System Jellybeans
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MIDBRAIN LIMBIC SYSTEMThe MLS

• Blue Hypothalamus
• Yellow Pituitary Gland
• Red Amygdala
• Green Hippocampus
• Beneath the Green
• Substantia Nigra
• Red Nucleus

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MLSWhen you think of the MLSthink Intoxicants

• ADDICTION
• SEXUAL
• INFATUATION
• STIMULATION
• DRIVING FAST
• BULLETPROOF
• ENTITLEMENT
• PEER SATURATIONMOST DANGEROUS

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MLS

• Cardinal Rule of Detangling MIND CANDY
• First Response of the MLS around PEERS can be
  devastatingly WRONG! Influenced by Peer
  Saturation
• Why? The MLS is the Gooey Center for
  Addiction, Sexual Shenanigans, Impulsivity, a
  powerful magnet to Dangerous Activities like
  driving while intoxicated or just TOO FAST
• Whats the Smart Part of the Brain?
  

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PREFRONTALSLike Raisinets--The Smart Candy
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PREFRONTAL CORTEXafter further review

• Adult Perception
• Weigh Options
• Consequences
• Plan of Action
• PoliticsDodge bullets
• Long Look Before we Leap
• Reflection
• Sleep on it
• Wait

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Placebo Effect

• Im Not SUGGESTING that consuming Raisinets
  makes you SMARTER BUT
• What If You Think It does?!!

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1/3 of the brain versus 2/3s

• Prefrontals
• Last region of the brain to mature
• 5-10 year LAG behind MLS
• Possible Prefrontal regulatory control is not
  dependable until almost 30 years of age!
• Can Adolescence extend far beyond age 30?

• Brain Illumination
• Brainstem 100 watts
• MLS 1,000 watts
• Prefrontals 60 watts
• Whos winning?

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ALL THAT JAZZ

• TESTOSTERONELibido Aggression
• DOPAMINE (DA)Pleasure Gusto
• NOREPINEHPRINE (NE)Focus Motivation
• PHENYLETHYLAMINE (PEA)Romantic Rush
• AFTER SEX
• OXYTOCIN/VASOPRESSINcuddling/bonding
• SEROTONIN (5-HT) FEMALES Calm confidence
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  MALES Sleeping pill

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RX for the MLS

• PRECOCIOUS DEVELOPMENT
• Trampoline by age 5 or 6
• NOT TO LATE FOR GEN Y TEENS
• ActivityYouth Sports/Gymnastics
• Teach kids about the brain with interesting
  presentationsflash videos by 6th grade
• Moral Ethical dilemmassmall groups
• Get the FAMILY CIRCLE back Talk about whats
  going on

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RX EDUCATION

• SGL1 The best possible scenarios for taming the
  MLS and downplay bullying and sexual tensiondual
  grade grouping 7/8 9/10 11/12 on separate
  campuses
• Community College courses emphasized in the 11th
  Grade and accelerates in 12th grade (12-24 hours
  college transfer credits) upon HS graduation
• Teens Volunteer, Parents Educators Mentor
• Mind Candy is taught in Middle School

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Jellybeans Becoming Raisinets

• Watch for Flash Videos of Brad, Janet, Noble
  Dodgerthe Mind Candy Familyon the Internet for
  Fire Drills UNDER CONSTR
• Consider Certification in Adolescent Neuropsych
• Self-Paced Internet Course for CEU Credits by
  Exam
• UNDER CONSTR
• Elementary Advanced Certification COMING SOON
• UNDER CONSTR
• jellytoraisins.org Exactly Whats Going on in
  the adolescent Brain UNDER CONSTR

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THANKS!!

• djacobs_at_wc.edu
• BLOGS
• Jellytoraisin.blogspot.com
• Crimeschool.blogspot.com
• Badneuron.blogspot.com