The teenage brain: "We can be impulsive and easily distracted during our teenage years"
Your brain is heaviest when you reach your early teens. It undergoes massive changes as the connections in your brain that aren't being used are lost much more quickly, while the connections that are being used become stronger - so your brain becomes much more efficient at what it does.
We can be impulsive and easily distracted during our teenage years. The prefrontal cortex at the very front of the brain is where decision making, forward planning and predicting consequences is based. It is the last area of the brain to be updated by changes. Strong hormonal influences on the brain at this age also explain why we show these characteristics during our teenage years.
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The teenage brain: "We can be impulsive and easily distracted during our teenage years"
Your brain is heaviest when you reach your early teens. It undergoes massive changes as the connections in your brain that aren't being used are lost much more quickly, while the connections that are being used become stronger - so your brain becomes much more efficient at what it does.
We can be impulsive and easily distracted during our teenage years. The prefrontal cortex at the very front of the brain is where decision making, forward planning and predicting consequences is based. It is the last area of the brain to be updated by changes. Strong hormonal influences on the brain at this age also explain why we show these characteristics during our teenage years.
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