Youth; a Critical Period in Brain Development

by Carl Ellenberger

By playing in the school band kids can learn teamwork, confidence, how practice improves skills, how to compete, and, when their brains are most receptive to learning and developing, build brain capacity for later use in any field in college, graduate, and professional education.

By playing on the football team, kids can learn teamwork, confidence, how practice improves skills, how to compete, and, when their brains are most receptive to learning and most vulnerable to trauma, subject them, on any field, to a serious risk of interruption of critical phases of brain development.


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