With the evolving world of TV, cinema, and social media, coupled with the change in adult and adolescent behavior as society progresses, the effects generated from media have to evolve as well. ... With an increasing number of today's adolescents having access to cable television, 80% of whom learn about sex, drugs, and violence (Gruber, 2000), and 10% of adults who participated in an informal survey admitting to checking their phones during sex, can we determine how media affects sex in today's society? ... However, the hours begin to add up at an uncomfortable rate. 30 hours per...

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A rough estimate of the age range for adolescence in rats is between 30-50 days of age (Little et al., 1996). ... One key benefit of this process is that it allows a child's brain to be sculpted by his/her interactions with the outside world (Chugani, 1998). ... A substantial number of synapses are eliminated, or pruned, in the cortex during adolescence, and this process is presumably influenced, at least in part, by interactions with the outside world (Huttenlocher, 1979; Lidow et al., 1991; Seeman, 1999). ... As in the frontal lobes, gray matter volumes in the parie...

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