So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." (Laughter) He then goes on to say, "Having said that, would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt in this weather?" (Laughter) So almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today, but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
Postoji poznat Shakespeareov citat iz "Zimske priče" koji ovako opisuje adolescenciju: "Želio bih da ne postoje godine između desete i dvadesettreće, ili da mladi prespavajuto doba; jer ne postoji ništa između doli ostavljanja djeve s djetetom, griješenja o starost, krađe, tuče." (Smijeh) Nastavlja: "Rekavši to, bi li itko od tih kuhanih mozgova od devetnaest i dvadesetdvije išao u lov po ovakvom vremenu?" (Smijeh) Skoro prije 400 godina, Shakespeare je oslikavao adolescente u svjetlu  vrlo sličnom onom u kakvom ih mi oslikavamo danas, ali danas pokušavamo razumjeti njihovo ponašanje s obzirom na osnovne promjene koje se odvijaju u njihovom mozgu.