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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
A few months ago, National Geographic published an article about how teenagers' brains are different from adults' brains. Turns out they pretty much DO lose their brains for a few years!
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actually, the time frame of "brain losing" is quite a bit longer than that. I just attended an all day intensive workshop at Barrow Neurological Institute on Neuroscience and Cognitive Development. Turns out that the female frontal lobes don't fully mature until the 20s, and the males, even later. There's actually a plateau in development that kicks in around 15-16 and persists into the early 20s. Evolutionary explanation: raging hormones = procreate, procreate, procreate!
Simplifying, of course, but it sure helped me understand the "idiocy" that is exhibited by freshmen (both male and female) and why it's so much easier to interact with juniors and seniors.
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