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The Mystery of the Teenage Brain

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The Human Brain Continues to Develop Right Through Adolescence

The brain reaches its adult size by about age eight or nine years and it doesn't change very much in volume after that. Until about 20, 25 years ago, it was assumed that the human brain stops developing in childhood. And infact, the human brain continues to develop right throughout adolescence and even into the early timid twenties. We know that because weare now able to scan the living human brain with mri scanning,. which gives us really beautiful, detailed images of the livinghuman brain at all ages.

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