Feeling Good
6x12"
Mixed Media on Board
Painting #196 - This painting depicts the plasticity of the adolescent
brain, which transforms in levels that will never be reached again. The nucleus
accumbens (experiences pleasure) is a small structure inside the limbic system
and it actually gets bigger when approaching adolescence and then smaller again
in adulthood. This remodeling means that adolescents are much more easily
aroused and will go out of their way to seek rewarding experiences (social
rewards, praise, attention etc.) and will even engage in dangerous activities.
Did you know that research states that literally nothing will ever feel as good
as it did in your teens because everything was more intense?
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