How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain: 6 Game-Changers That Will Maximize Your Teen’s Brainpower—Permanently

"How do some teens become solid adults and some get stuck? Coates gives parents the science we need to understand adolescent development, the strategies that work to help our kids finish growing up, and the encouragement we seek to catalyze their transformation." - Deborah Gilboa, MD, family physician and author of Get the Behavior You Want...Without Being the Parent You Hate!

"How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain is that doable way that will give parents, teachers, counselors and teenagers and young adults the will to grow that smarter brain. By delving into brain research and neuroscience, and writing about it in such an easy-to-understand-and-follow style, any and all readers will discover a road map they can follow that, if followed, automatically results in developing a smarter brain." - Mark Goulston, MD, psychiatrist and author of Just Listen

"While the teenage brain is uniquely sensitive and therefore vulnerable to environmental factors, it is also malleable and adaptive. Indeed, adolescence can be a window of opportunity to bolster brain power. By providing parents concrete steps to support, protect, and integrate the brain, Dr. Coates' new book gives parents a powerful gift." - Victoria Dunckley, MD, child psychiatrist and author of Reset Your Child's Brain

"How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain delivers on the title's promise, teaching all of us how to help our teens be the best they can be. I recommend this book not just for parents, but also for teens themselves. It is powerfully and accessibly written and provides the latest in brain science research for everyone to use." - Dr. Michael Gurian, family therapist and bestselling author of Saving Our Sons and The Minds of Girls

"I loved the book. It's perfect timing for me, as I have a 12 year old daughter! I loved the real life examples. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the actions are very doable, not overwhelming at all, and I'm already implementing some! Having the science and rationale behind it has made it easier to explain to my daughter how we can get her brain working better and what it will mean! She is now quite interested in expanding her way of thinking." - Cath Hakanson, author of Girl Puberty, Boy Puberty and The Sex Education Answer Book