ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years Under most laws, young people are recognized as adults at age 18. But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don’t reach full maturity until the age 25.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to recent findings, the human brain does not reach full maturity until at least the mid-20s. (See J. Giedd in References.) The specific changes that follow young adulthood are not yet well studied, but it is known that they involve increased myelination and continued adding and pruning of neurons.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -More than a century since James’s influential text, we know that, unfortunately, our brains start to solidify by the age of 25, but that, fortunately, change is still possible after. The key is continuously creating new pathways and connections to break apart stuck neural patterns in the brain.

Detailed explanation-5: -The research also shows that brains don’t fully develop until age 25 and that teenagers tend to depend on the part of the brain that mediates fear and other gut reactions–the amygdala–when making decisions, he said.