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| Experts: Brain Development Should Play Bigger Role in Determining Treatment of Juvenile Offenders |
| By jjie.org - Gary Gately |
| Published: 12/17/2013 |
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Adolescent brain development should play a greater role in determining how youths are treated in the juvenile justice system, experts said at a national juvenile justice conference Monday. The experts appeared on a panel at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s eighth annual Models for Change National Working Conference. Neuroscientist BJ Casey, director of the Sackler Institute at the Weill Cornell Medical College, pointed out on a slide images of areas of a brain that are developing from around age 5 to around age 20. “These are the very regions that are important for planning, making decisions, regulating behavior that are continuing to develop during this time,” Casey said. “There are also changes in big structures in the brain that are associated with desire and fight and flight, and really what we’re seeing is as these regions are maturing, they’re activated because of changes in hormones and chemicals and fine-tuning of the circuitry.” Read More. |
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