US EditionThe human brain goes through five phases, with adolescence lasting until age 32: study
The study analyzed MRI data from 3,802 people and found key ages where brain wiring shifts, revealing insights into development, aging, and vulnerability to conditions.
- The brain goes through five distinct phases in life, with key turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83, according to a study by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
- Understanding the brain's structural journey of a few major turning points could help identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption, leading to neurodevelopmental, mental health, and neurological conditions.
- Brain development typically considered adolescent actually continues into the early thirties before the mature adult neural wiring pattern emerges, suggesting reasons for the prevalence of mental health disorders before age 25 and dementia risk over 65.
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Your Brain Goes Through 5 Distinct Epochs, Massive Study Finds
The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Pittsburgh in the US have now identified four major turning points in brain wiring between birth and death. Like chapters of our lives, each of these neurological 'epochs' marks a new era of development or decline. "Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been c…
Brains Have 5 ‘Major Epochs’ in a Lifetime: Study
During a lifetime, there are a handful of moments when the structure and function of the brain change significantly, researchers said in a new study. The moments come around the ages of 9, 32, 66, and 83, researchers with the University of Cambridge and University of Pittsburgh said in the study, published on Nov. 25 by Nature Communications. That leaves five “major epochs,” beginning from birth to around age 9. During that phase, the most activ…
Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task
Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Denise Moerel and colleagues from Western Sydney University in Australia.
The brain passes through five distinct phases of our life, at age 9, 32, 66 and 83, revealed people of science, quoted by BBC.
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