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.
Nunha famosa cita de "Conto de Inverno", Shakespeare describe así a adolescencia: "Quixera que non mediara tempo  entre os 10 e os 23 anos, ou que a xuventude pasara  durmindo tranquilamente; porque non hai nada no ínterim salvo preñar mozas, aldraxar anciáns,  roubar, loitar". (Risas) E continúa dicindo: "Dito isto, quen senón esas cabezas loucas de 19 e 22 anos sairía cazar con este tempo?" (Risas) Ou sexa que hai 400 anos, Shakespeare retratou aos adolescentes da mesma maneira que se fai hoxe, pero aínda estamos a tentar comprender a súa conduta en termos dos cambios  cerebrais subxacentes.