Synopsis
Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at sixteen can shape their lives forever.
- Programme: Child of Our Time
- Series: 11
- Episode: 1: Changing Minds
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Psychology
Licence: ERA Licence required
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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