So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." (Laughter) He then goes on to say, "Having said that, would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt in this weather?" (Laughter) So almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today, but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
Hay una cita famosa de Shakespeare de "Cuento de Invierno" donde describe la adolescencia así: "Quisiera que no mediara tiempo entre la edad de 10 y 23 o pasar durmiendo los años juveniles. Porque en el intervalo, sólo se trata con jóvenes se ofende a los mayores, se roba y pelea". (Risas) Después continúa: "Habiendo dicho eso, quién, sino esos cerebros en ebullición de 19 y 22, salen a cazar con este tiempo?" (Risas) Así que hace casi 400 años, Shakespeare retrataba a los adolescentes con una luz muy similar con la que los retratamos hoy en día, pero hoy tratamos de entender sus conductas en términos de los cambios subyacentes que ocurren en su cerebro.