Because they appreciate that the neural circuits that control a teenager's ability to focus don't finish developing until late adolescence, neuroscientists make better parents, right? Not necessarily, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Dr Arthur Toga, of UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, has been scanning his 20-year-old daughter's brain since she was 6. The sheaf of scans represent one of the longest sequences in the new field of the neurobiology of youth. Did it make him more patient, more tolerant, more understanding? Nope. “It is sad but true: It didn’t help me at all,” he told the WSJ. “You’d think it would make me more tolerant. I should have been, because I knew what was going on as a matter of neural development.” ~ Wall Street Journal, Nov 23