it may stem from bullying perpetration in early adolescence. if the bullied prevention program is not addressing homophobic bantering the use of that language will probably be ineffective given these really strong longitudinal links. take away messages here. homophobic name calling is prevalent in middle school. it is not just in the state of illinois. we are finding it in a deer states. youth who bullies resort to homophobic name-calling over the middle school years. we have a causal link and we feel strongly about replicating in multiple studies. we also find bullied prevention programs should include that discussion. around the language that marginalize not just belgae bt --lgbt use but those who are gender nonconforming. also showing a series of studies that bully and homophobic bully oomf is linked to sexual violence over time and that is what the circles show and longitudinal analysis. six months difference. one from wave 1 to five a two year difference. wanted to know association among leading, homophobic entering and sexual-harassment p

as a beginning of a buffer for that adolescent. talk to us a little bit about that. sure. well, i think in just about every setting, a child exists in there are caring adults available, or there can be caring adults available who can be a protective factor to a child and help that child access their own inner resilience. so including things like helping children realize that they can use humor, that they can develop close relationships with safe adults. teaching children ways that they can be safe. okay, if you can't bring friends home because crazy things are happening there and you can't study there how can we put something in place so that you have a safe place to go after school? if you're concerned about your siblings then how can we make sure that their needs get met? so really, i think we just need to encourage adults to not ignore signs that a child is struggling and reach out to children and to kids to say if you have one caring adult in your life who is in your corner that can make all the difference for you. absolutely.

for the first time, the supreme court sided adolescents -- cited adolescent neuroscience. a 12-year-old brain develops. you will watch its start to mature until you hit about 24 or 25. for those of you who are parents, you do not need a scan. for those of us who went to adolescence, we know it was a time of poor decision making. the supreme court used the picture of the brain in order to make the decision. there is this nice development over time that is associated with changes in composition and changes in how you process the world and make decisions. ok. now you have another client named george. he is a 55-year-old white male offender. he has a history of being in and out of jail. his iq is very low. george has a very low iq, they might have to refer to him as being retarded. he has arrested for murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty. the supreme court said you are not allowed for individuals with low iqs. prosecution says the iq is 72, high enough to execute. is there anything that neuroscience can do about george? i am just kidding, this is george. [la

even though that adolescent wasn't evicted, by seeing that, that predisposed them to adolescent -- suicidalsk factors. there's also a few protective factors on this slide. you can see in terms of the community, spirituality is a protective factor among adolescents. they are also among community social support, a network of friends and family actually protective among adolescents against suicidal behavior. one of the things we've been looking at in regards to cdc is funding programs that promote connectedness connectedness to school, connectedness to family, connectedness to positive peers can make a difference with regards to suicidal behavior and protect against. this is to let you see that it can be very complicated when you start looking at some of the risk factors for suicidal behavior but it really is a complex human behavior and complex phenomenon that there's no one thing that puts an adolescent or an adult at risk for suicidal behavior but it's often an interaction of several different factors. you can see it start than at the bottom talks about individual characteristics, the local

the latest from duke university suggests that adolescent what use leaves irreversible mental deficits> i've had kids with psychotic breaks from smoking marijuana on a regular basis >> this doctor says there is a certain assumption, particularly in the bay area, for a 14-16 year-old smoking pot, they're doing irreversible damage to themselves which might not happen to a 40 year-old >> in addition he says parents have turned a blind eye to something they should be very concerned about >> they are shocked that marijuana is part of a problem. they know their kids smoke marijuana but they say everyone smokes marijuana >> is a personal choice and people should be able to burn vegetable matter and in hail it >> he says his parents were not even aware >> of was growing a little pot plant in my bedroom and it got pretty big and they didn't know what it was a >> today people are starting to talk about it >> they should be educated as much as possible to the health effects and, you know, they should eventually decide on their own >> the adolescent brain is still developing and might be more vuln

we spoke with an adolescent psychiatrist about bullying and what could drive a victim... to take drastic measuues. on the facebook site of the suspected shooter yesterday before school-- ent - quote - "this is the first day of school... the last day of my life."his facebook page shows photos of him concealing his ace. and lists charles manson - along with columbine shooters - among his likes and inspirations.experts say victims of bullying sometimes respond in very dramatic ways... and feel they are nearly out of options in their life. p "now i have two choices. i can ake this into my own hands - retaliation. or i can turn it inward on myself - sui> suicide."> still... with all these suppossd signs, a family memmee of the allegedd shooter gave a statement on the family's behalf saying: "we are horrified. we did not see this coming and our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and the victim's family. now let's turn to the witnesses of this shooting... we also asked our expert about the best way to he recommendes parents m. start by asking their children to talk about t

brain of children and adolescents are very different from the brain of adults. it's not that one is better than others. there are many differences but one of the ones that i think is more fundamental is the connectivity. the brain of the adult is much more connected than the brain of an adolescent and so... that doesn't mean it works worse. it works differently. so for example a connection that is not fully formed is your frontal cortex, your olympic brain. that connection athat allows me to literally control the activity of the amygdala, the limbic brain, is not fully formed until you're 20. that explains why adolescents are much more sbelsive, why they're much greater risk takers why their intensity is much greater overall. because they don't have that cognitive control that allows you to model late reactions. >> rose: i'm not sure that's good thing. i'd like to be an adolescent. >> everything has a plus and a minus. >> i'd like to pick up a little bit on one of the ideas that emerges from nora's idea about networks which is that if you think of a brain as a s

age then in adolescence, the number of spines are reduced and thought that the spines and synapses on these spines that go away are ones that have not been incorporate mood functional brain circuitry. so for example in the prefrontal cortex they're the ones that aren't actually helping working memory. so prevailing hypothesis in schizophrenia is that this pruning of the spines goes awry. so that as illustrated here, in the brain of an individual schizophrenia, in the prefrontal cortex, the cells have a much smaller number of dendtric spines. consequence, they are much lessen riched for conveying information and we think that this is what underlies the impairments in working memory that are part of the core cognitive processes that are impaired in the illness. >> this is a pre have found set of findings, presentsed. because first of tall shows a general principles of brain development, overproduction and pruning. one develops many more connections than when ultimately needs and those that are useful to maintained and those that are not are cut back, number one. number two, you see that

so we are talking about adolescents in middle school and high school. purposefully, we wanted to make sure that our groups were, um, that we had sort of a nice representation of age across, so it would make sense that our average is 15.6 years of age. and about on purpose half of our kids were male and half of our kids were female. and then we weighted the data so they approximate a nationally representative sampling, so about 70% are white, 20% hispanic, 7% represent, self-reported to be lgbq, about a third are suburban and about one in four report being born-again christian. so i think it's really important when we talk about, um, data that we are really clear about what exactly it is that we're talking about, and the only way to know that is to, number one, understand where our data are coming from and, number two, understanding how we're measuring what we're talking about. so in our survey what we did was we took an item from a well validated scale of depression called the cesdr, and there's an item on that scale, and it says i wish i were dead. and

we are told one was an adolescent and one was an early teens. both of those people we are told are in critical condition. they have gone to the hospital. we are not being told that whether this is one family. anything more about the condition other than they are in critical. certainly you can take a look at the duplex. it is completely gutted. firefighters say this was a tough one. it did not take them all that long to put it out. the bad news is, this building was occupied. three people, very badly injured, a male in his early 20's. he is expected to be a survivor. we are told the others are in rough shape. in adolescence and early teen that. >> moving on, a cautionary story for parents and gamers. a video game marathon is being blamed for hospitalizing a teenager. the mother says he spent four- days locked in his room playing modern warfare 3 on the >> box coming out for snacks and bathroom breaks. he collapsed from severe dehydration. the mother says this will not happen again. >> the is gone. >> the mother says her son was so scared he has n

estos adolescent es todos los dias....se presentan en vecindarios claves...con mayor poblacion hispana... "es mas tristeza cuando despues nos vemos lamentandono s nosotros mismos sobre hicieron esto, no hicieron esto, pero no votamos, esa es nuestra arma, tenemos que aprovecharla, tenemos que hacer uso de esa arma que es la unica que tenemos para luego exigir nuestros derechos" no hay excusa que valga dicen...si eres elegible para votar, en ese instante... te ayudaran a llenar los formularios.. "usted esta registrado para votar? si,venga vamos a hacerlo ahora, porque solamente le dura un solo minuto, en un minuto ya esta registrado y nosotros mismos lo mandamos y de una vez le llega la tarjeta y le va a decir a donde va a ir a votar cuando llegue noviembre" desafiando las temperaturas... y olvidandose de las vacaciones de verano... confian que su sacrificio hara la diferencia...y esperan que la comunidad tambien responda..."deje de quejarse y a hacer el cambio" se estima que 21.7- millones de hispanos son elegibles para votar en todo el pais... en otras infor

an adolescent and a person as an early us teens. weree not told if they girls. understand they were very, badly burned and have been to the hospital in critical condition. an adult female with serious taken away. 4:30 this afternoon, a very bad fire in this community. it seems to have ravaged a single family. for people this afternoon. other big story, pepco wants to raise rates. the power outages this some customers are speaking up. >> they will file for another increase in the fall, something regulators denied recently. this is showing up for meetings -- they are showing up for meetings in droves. holmes joins us from largo. indications, pepco earfulls will get an tonight. intomers we spoke with are mood to pay more money for of service they are receiving. >> an army of pepco cruz were improvements in silver today, a welcome sight for residents even though power off for a few hours. jennifer brown and her are happy to see them making upgrades. the field is inappropriate for rateials to ask for a increase now following lengthy last month's storm. for us is appr

we spoke with an adolescent psychiatrist about bullying and what could drive a victim... to takk drastic measures. on the facebook site of the shooter he posted an alarming comment school-- quote - "this is the first day of school... life."the suspect's may indicate his thoughts. (suicidal?)as well as his photos... where his face is aamost always concealed.a classic sign of low self-esteem.his online "likes" - provide some listing people like charles manson... along with erik harris and dylon klebold - the shooters ffom columbine.all potential red flags for any teacher..... 13:06645 "socially isolating behavior. a withdraw from society... blood and guts... ddawing unusually violent pictures."13:03:46 "what we the get concerned. a lot of drama. and the drama drives the bullying./ drives the bullying./ of drama. and the drama the get concerned. a lot ddamaticallyy they cry. the get concerned. a lot offdrama. and the drama drives the bullying./ experts say victims of bullying in very dramatic ways... and feel out of options in their life. still... with all these supposed sig