Not available April 26? Don’t worry. Register now and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your convenience.Emotional regulation enables us to manage our feelings so we can proactively choose goal-directed responses.
We depend on the brain’s executive functions to help us evaluate the demands of our environment and modify our emotions accordingly.
In adolescence, fledgling executive functions emerge inconsistently in the prefrontal cortex, while rapid increases in post-pubertal hormones fuel unpredictable responses.
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