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Your Friends Think There Is Something Wrong with Their 16-Year-Old

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Your friends think there is something wrong with their 16-year-old son. One week he says that he wants to be a rock star and the next he says that he wants to be a pediatrician. Your friends don't think that a normal adolescent can change identities so rapidly. Based on what you know about achieving an identity in adolescence what can you tell your friends to make them feel better?


Definitions:

Insula

A region of the brain's cerebral cortex, situated deep within the lateral sulcus, involved in consciousness, emotion, and regulating the body's homeostasis.

Intermediate Mass

In the context of the thalamus, it's the part that connects the two lobes of the thalamus at their medial surfaces.

Cerebellum

A part of the brain that regulates motor movements, balance, and coordination.

Muscle Tone

The continuous and passive partial contraction of muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during resting state.

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