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The basis of the article is the well-researched semi-recent discovery that adolescent brain development had been poorly understood up until the invention of MRI, basically. There's a lot of lit about it, but the basics are that teen brains are doing a lot more "rewiring" than at any time other than infancy. This is why teens display riskier behavior, why teens often do demonstrably "stupid" things that they know better than to do, why they have unpredictable impulse control, etc. There are very good reasons why teenagers are so "difficult" from a parental standpoint: emotionally and psychologically speaking, they're regressing in order to develop into mature adults.