The primal teen : how new discoveries about the teenage brain help us to understand why kids act as they do
Physical Description: |
242 p. cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
0385503393 |
Author Notes: |
After New York Newsday ceased publication in 1995, she was hired by The New York Times. She worked on the national desk, edited business coverage of the New York metropolitan area, and was media editor. She joined the paper's science department as an assistant editor in 2000. She became health editor in 2004 and science editor in 2011. She wrote two books about the brain entitled The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids and The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind. She died of breast cancer on April 15, 2015 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) |