Frontal lobe development during adolescence often lags behind limbic system development, which may help explain impulsiveness, risky behaviors, and emotional storms that often accompany adolescence.
Explanation:
In adolescents, the development of frontal lobe is observed to lag behind the limbic system development. This process is controlled by factors like environmental, heredity, pre and postnatal insult, sleep pattern, nutrition etc.
The frontal lobes are engaged with development control, critical thinking, suddenness, memory, language, commencement, judgment, motivation control, and social and sexual conduct. Adolescents process information with the amygdala which is the emotional part.
In adolescent’s brain, the associations between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing and not always at the similar rate. That is the reason when adolescents have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking.
