People who work in high schools and/or interact regularly with teenagers or kids are familiar with the fact that the prefrontal cortex is not fully mature until age 25. Since it’s the brain’s director of traffic and control tower, if it’s half-baked so to speak, then that can help explain often erratic and sometimes irresponsible teenage behavior.
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