Freshman Winston Yan enters the Admissions Building at Harvard University September 12, 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Understanding the Teenage Brain and College Admissions

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 21, 2015

We are airing a rebroadcast of some of our favorite interviews over the past year.

Neurologist Frances E. Jensen on the science of the adolescent brain, and how to survive raising teenagers. Actor David Duchovny with his debut novel, Holy Cow. Biographer Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller on the ill-fated life of his brother, Texas music legend Bobby Fuller. New York Times columnist Frank Bruni with an antidote to the college admissions mania.

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