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Michael Kaess

Michael Kaess

Researcher

Aug 21, 2026

6:44
Can you, can you touch on that a little bit?
6:48
Yeah.
6:48
So the adolescent brain functions in a way that allows gain of autonomy and i- identity forming and relationship building to other people of the same age.
7:02
Um, that also means that the ele- that the adolescent brain creates a lot of emotions because emotions are driving our actions.
7:12
You know, they give impulses for action.
7:14
So if I'm angry, I go into a fight.
7:17
If I'm anxious, I withdraw, you know, or I, I hide.

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24:48
How do we make sense of the tail-off in that demographic where self-harm is less evident? What's happening? Is it the social connectedness? Are they finding a social area? What, what's happening?

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