Frances E. Jensen
Neurologist and brain researcher
Frances E. Jensen is a neurologist and researcher who chairs neurology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She wrote The Teenage Brain.
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About Frances E. Jensen
Frances E. Jensen is a physician and professor who leads the neurology department at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She has researched brain development from the newborn period through adulthood. Earlier in her career she was a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School. She also directed translational neuroscience and epilepsy research at Boston Children's Hospital, and held senior neurologist posts there and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is also a mother and teacher. She gives public talks on how teenage brains work, in venues such as science museums, high schools and TEDMED. Her book in our catalog is The Teenage Brain.