Psychologist Laurence Steinberg on teens and brain fog

Parenting teens and tweens can sometimes feel like kindergarten redux, except adolescent attitudes are edgier and their missing and broken stuff costs more. Most scientists once believed the human brain reached full development by age 12. But new research indicates it continues to develop through the early 20s, said Laurence Steinberg, a psychology professor at Temple. "It's not that a teen is forgetting," he said. "It's more like they're much more drawn to the immediate reward of a situation than adults are and they're much less likely to think ahead and think about the future. The future can be just an hour later."
Feb. 13, 2011 | ABC News, Associated Press, Huffington Post