Seemingly overnight sweet, cuddly children turn into angry, unpredictable creatures. One reason: During puberty teenagers’ brains turn into huge construction sites. Underutilized neural connections are dissolved and recombined. The prefrontal cortex, which is implicated in a variety of complex behaviours, including reasoning and planning, undergoes major refurbishment. Access to this area is restricted during puberty due to numerous roadblocks in this and other regions of the brain. The result: Erratic behaviour and unpredictable mood swings.
The body is also experiencing dramatic changes. Pimples disfigure teenage faces. Boys sprout chest hair and stubble, and their previously supple voices turn raspy. Girls’ clothes seem to shrink as their curves grow and the first menstruation sets in. In both sexes, the hormone cocktail is violently shaken, not stirred.
This transformation is a biological miracle. A hitherto well-known person becomes somebody new.
Puberty is like a second birth. During the first years of life, children learn their basic skills, but only
during puberty they unfold their full physical and mental potential. Thanks to synaptic pruning, the
brain matures into an efficient supercomputer with fewer but faster connections. The body transforms into a powerful and finely controlled musculoskeletal system. With the onset of puberty, the nursery doors are thrown open to reveal an unknown, exciting new world. Teenagers are full of zest. They don’t want to be mere explorers anymore but conquerors. It's an exciting time full of intense experiences: The first crush, sex, alcohol. Hobbies turn into passions, banters into fierce fights, and playmates into intimate friends. It is a time full of joy – and despair.
This documentary was produced by Tony Comiti and directed by Charles Comiti and Julien Boluen. It was first released in 2023.
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