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Summary Of Startling Finds On Teenage Brains By Paul Thompson
In the Article “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Paul Thompson his opinion on kids committing murder is a hard subject to dissect however he claims that their brain tissue loss can not be an excuse for the murder they commit. For example, he stated “what really caught our eye was the massive loss of brain tissue that occurs in the teenage years.” (paragraph 7)This shows the reader that he comes from his personal research to show much of the brain is lost in adolescents. Another good source of ethos he provides is “My group at UCLA and our colleagues at the National Institute of Health have developed technology to track the growth of the brain.”(paragraph 5) This major sourcing of ethos gives the reader a sense of the authros sensibility

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