CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - National Sleep Foundation, Steinburg, Omar Khadr
9 Nov 2012
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Increased risk taking: alcohol, drugs, delinquency, etc. 13,000 adolescents deaths each year: 70% of these are motor vehicle, accidental, homicide, etc. 46% have had sex: 34% had unprotected sex. Looking toward the short-term benefits rather than the long term consequences. Went to the seventh game of the playoffs riot: caught on tape -> setting a cop car on fire, blows it up, got caught because it was on youtube -> got charged. For reason i can"t explain i engaged in this behaviour. Got involved in afghanistan and got into a situation where he was working with a terrorist. Built and launched an ied into a truck killing an american soldier. Arrested and detained at guantanamo since then. Structures in our brain that allow us to process -> thinking part of our brain. The cortex makes up 85% of our brain. Cortex is responsible for decision making, reasoning, etc. Executive functions: planning, decision making, self-regulation, consequences.
