Everybody says that the brain isn’t done developing until age 25. So what actually happens to your brain between the end of puberty and age 25?

Question

Everybody says that the brain isn’t done developing until age 25. So what actually happens to your brain between the end of puberty and age 25?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Neurons are clipped. We have too many of them. That’s why teenagers are impulsive. How the brain knows which ones to clip is beyond me. But toward the end it’s a pruning process.