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Jul 2025
44m 3s

How We Grow Up: Inside the Adolescent Br...

DR. BECKY KENNEDY
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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Matt Richtel joins Dr. Becky to explore the adolescent brain, teen mental health, and the science of how we grow up. 
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