"This brain remodelling happens intensively during adolescence, continuing into your child’s mid-20s.
Some brain changes happen before puberty, and some continue long after. Brain change depends on age, experience and hormonal changes in puberty.
So even though all teenagers’ brains develop in roughly the same way at the same time, there are differences among individual teenagers. For example, if your child started puberty early, this might mean that some of your child’s brain changes started early too.
Inside the teenage brain Adolescence is a time of significant growth and development inside the teenage brain.
The main change is that unused connections in the thinking and processing part of your child’s brain (called the grey matter) are ‘pruned’ away. At the same time, other connections are strengthened. This is the brain’s way of becoming more efficient, based on the ‘use it or lose it’ principle.
This pruning process begins in the back of the brain. The front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, is remodelled last. The prefrontal cortex is the decision-making part of the brain, responsible for your child’s ability to plan and think about the consequences of actions, solve problems and control impulses. Changes in this part continue into early adulthood.
Because the prefrontal cortex is still developing, teenagers might rely on a part of the brain called the amygdala to make decisions and solve problems more than adults do. The amygdala is associated with emotions, impulses, aggression and instinctive behaviour."
DoubleFantasy: Look up "Brain Pruning" - the brain is still developing in to the mid 20's I only learnt about it a couple of weeks ago at evening class.
"This brain remodelling happens intensively during adolescence, continuing into your child’s mid-20s.
Some brain changes happen before puberty, and some continue long after. Brain change depends on age, experience and hormonal changes in puberty.
So even though all teenagers’ brains develop in roughly the same way at the same time, there are differences among individual teenagers. For example, if your child started puberty early, this might mean that some of your child’s brain changes started early too.
Inside the teenage brain Adolescence is a time of significant growth and development inside the teenage brain.
The main change is that unused connections in the thinking and processing part of your child’s brain (called the grey matter) are ‘pruned’ away. At the same time, other connections are strengthened. This is the brain’s way of becoming more efficient, based on the ‘use it or lose it’ principle.
This pruning process begins in the back of the brain. The front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, is remodelled last. The prefrontal cortex is the decision-making part of the brain, responsible for your child’s ability to plan and think about the consequences of actions, solve problems and control impulses. Changes in this part continue into early adulthood.
Because the prefrontal cortex is still developing, teenagers might rely on a part of the brain called the amygdala to make decisions and solve problems more than adults do. The amygdala is associated with emotions, impulses, aggression and instinctive behaviour."
It narrows to the prefrontal cortex (the decision making part of the brain)...its not finished its development well in to adulthood. What I'm saying is 19 is still a young and tender age.
DoubleFantasy: It narrows to the prefrontal cortex (the decision making part of the brain)...its not finished its development well in to adulthood. What I'm saying is 19 is still a young and tender age.
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