You have to be a teenager before that happens in the prefrontal cortex. In the rest of the brain, it's happening earlier on. And this has actually one of the reasons why maybe people who ultimately develop schizophrenia have their first psychotic breaks or their first disorganized thinking episodes around their early twenties and late teens. But this worries me into thinking that there's something that freezes about you when you're a teenager. Well, I mean, a lot of people argue that some of your personality traits do get formed there.

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