# How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Salon U.S. Air Force
- Speaker: Kashfia Rahman
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kashfia_rahman_how_risk_taking_changes_a_teenager_s_brain)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Why do teenagers sometimes make outrageous, risky choices? Do they suddenly become reckless, or are they just going through a natural phase? To find out, Kashfia Rahman -- winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (and a Harvard freshman) -- designed and conducted an experiment to test how high school students respond to and get used to risk, and how it changes their still-developing brains. What she discovered about risk and decision-making could change how we think about why teens do what they do.

## Lectures

1. [How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kashfia_rahman_how_risk_taking_changes_a_teenager_s_brain/8dfb3c2d203c), 12 min (TED's player)