Barbara Strauch

Barbara Strauch is the medical science and health editor of the New York Times. She previously covered science and medical issues in Boston and Houston and directed Pulitzer Prize-winning news at Newsday. She is the mother of two teenagers and lives in Westchester County, New York.

Books
	The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids The New Science of the Teenage Brain. Teen. Brain. Brain. Teen. The words, I concede, go more tongue in cheek than hand in hand. Utter them out loud-mention even that you're writing a book on the teenage brain-and the jokes come popping out, like pimples