This finding supports the fact that during the day, kids are not ready to learn until about 10 in the morning. When she mapped the brains of teenagers, she recorded that they were not ready to learn at the early hours during the first few periods. “When we bring those kids into the laboratory, what we see is a phenomenon that’s a lot of concern for us. They start to look as if they have a major sleep disorder - narcolepsy.” Without those few extra hours of sleep, most kids are not able to go through the day fully focused and ready for the day. How does this all relate? This all relates to pruning, the activity of the brain that allows for it to function more effectively by understanding and learning which synapses are not being used regularly, so the brain somewhat “stops” using those synapses. This relates to the gray matter. This relates to how the teenage brain isn’t able to function without enough sleep. To add on, Deborah Todd addressed that kids aren’t able to correctly identify the feelings in an adults face. They may see shock or anger, but the true feeling is fear. “One of the interesting things about the findings are that they suggest that teenagers are not able to correctly read all the feelings in the adult face.” The part of the brain that reads feelings, the hypothalamus, isn’t fully developed enough to read those