ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -But they’re going to access it more slowly.” That’s because the nerve cells that connect teenagers’ frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don’t have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or “white matter, ” that adults have in this area.

Detailed explanation-2: -The frontal lobes, home to key components of the neural circuitry underlying “executive functions” such as planning, working memory, and impulse control, are among the last areas of the brain to mature; they may not be fully developed until halfway through the third decade of life [2].

Detailed explanation-3: -Prefrontal cortex development plateaus later in males than females although males have consistently greater volume and thickness [16, 17].

Detailed explanation-4: -The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so. In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part.