Recent Interviews and Blogs
Blogs
A critique of the Perry brain images of neglect (excerpt from Inventing Ourselves, 2018)
Neuroscience, adolescence and GCSEs - a misalignment? (Rethinking Assessment) (2021)
https://rethinkingassessment.com/rethinking-blogs/neuroscience-adolescence-and-gcses-a-misalignment/
Teenage risk taking and the social influence of friends may reflect maturing of the adolescent brain (2014)
Interviews
TES: "What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones" (2023)
Learnus: "Learnus visits The Blakemore Lab at the University of Cambridge in the UK" (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtVLakAlyLQ
The Guardian: "'Don't blame the young for being moody' - and seven other ways to nurture healthy teenage minds" (2023)
Forbes: 'Negative impact of social media for girls, boys varies by age' (2022)
Independent: '"Parents should talk to children about social media at a young age"' (2022)
Daily Mail: 'The age your child is most vulnerable to social media' (2022)
The Telegraph: 'Social media has a negative impact on girls earlier than boys, Oxbridge study finds' (2022)
BBC News: 'Teenage social media use linked to less life-satisfaction for some' (2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60875884
The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry: The Mystery of the Teenage Brain (2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014gnc
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2022)
The Naked Scientist: 'Teenagers and Social Isolation' (2020)
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/teenagers-and-social-isolation
Radio SRF (2019)
BBC Women's Hour (2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003r3l
BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage (2018)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pl662
The Guardian: ‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents (2018)
The Guardian: ‘It is, strangely, acceptable to mock and demonise teenagers’ (2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/25/sarah-jayne-blakemore-secret-life-teenage-brain
The Guardian: Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize (2018)
The Guardian: Teenagers’ brains not ready for GCSEs, says neuroscientist (2018)
The Royal Society: Life and research with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2016)
The Telegraph: Revealed - the science behind teenage laziness (2015)
BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains (2015)