Kathryn Berkett

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400 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 26 Apr

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School Shorts · Listen to this and the Teen Brain Will All Make Sense! with Kathryn Berkett · 26 Apr 2026 podcast

And you're like, but you told me last night that you knew exactly what you were going to do after school.

I'm not, I don't know.

When they're calm, we're all good.

It's all there.

But it's just that that emotion will happen faster.

Yeah.

Yeah, there is an increased energy need in the brain.

There definitely is.

But what that one is often about, and obviously there's lots of reasons for everything, is, and it's more likely in the middle of adolescence, sort of that 14-ish, 15-ish time, we literally see the melatonin release in the brain, which is your sleepy hormone.

It just genetically, it changes and it releases maybe an hour.

Some research suggests up to two hours later.

So, you know, I've had it and I'm like, oh, yeah, I need to go to bed.

And the kids are like still pinging and awake.

Now, historically, that was they believe because it was their turn to look after the village, pee on night duty.

So that's why the genetics is there.

But before as well, even with me, you'd go, but then the old TV, it'd be nothing on TV or anything.

But now do you see we go to bed, they've got their devices, then they start to do this, which increases dopamine, reduces melatonin, they don't go to sleep.

And now they're two, three, four o'clock in the morning, which is not normal.

One or two hours later is normal.

But even if they do the normal, even if they do the normal, that's one or two hours later in the morning before the cortisol comes on, before that wake up happens.

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