1.Discuss neurogenesis as a second burst of brain development in the human life-cycle. When does this second burst of development occur? What causes or facilitates it? What parts of the brain are involved and what do we mean when we say it includes cell growth as well as cell death?

2.Why should we especially protect our youth, from the ages of seven to emerging adulthood (the end of high school from about 7-18 years of age from exposure to drugs and to particularly stressful realities that the class defined as, political polarization, climate change, economic struggles, over-sexualized media content, any attacks on self-esteem?

3.Discuss the Worldwide dangers and challenges to the very life expectancy of our youth. What are the dangers for those who have more wealth in comparison to those who are more impoverished?

Compare the differences between boys and girls in terms of dangers Worldwide.

Compare the group from 10-14 with the older group from 15-19.

Use this link to get the full impact of the dangers to our youth, Worldwide:

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30680-7/fulltext

4.Discuss why you might want to do more naturalistic and qualitative research with the Adolescents and Emerging adults in the here and now reality of our Global as well as Western World.

5.Help parents understand the prevalence among White, Black, Hispanic/Latino/Latin/Latin X and Asian girls and boys of Obesity and Eating Disorders. What can a parent do to protect their youth if they understand that our American Context might foster high BMI, Obesity and Eating Disorders?

6.You have been thinking about additions you hope to see to Arnett's upcoming research that we think is likely to focus more on the Post-pandemic emerging adult. What are some of the conclusions and suggestions you would share with Arnett as he likely launches into this new turn in his research? Feel free to make use of some of your Discussion threads for this question.

7.Howard Gardener believes there a multiple intelligences that we can study if we want to make our education systems in the U.S. better for developing youth. How would you re-design our school systems for teens around some of his multiple intelligences?