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The Adolescent Brain and the Reward System
How adolescent reward circuitry and uncertainty hijacking explain the pull — for of-age readers managing real exposure.
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The teen reward system runs hot while the prefrontal cortex — judgment and impulse control — keeps building into your mid-20s. That is normal development, not a character flaw.