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25 Dec 2010, 8:52 am

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-bra ... s-40s.html


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25 Dec 2010, 9:12 am

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who sees it that way. I wonder if that's what my Punk Rocker phase was all about? Immature anger.


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25 Dec 2010, 10:56 am

Behaviour wise and morally, I am very mature, perhaps on a 50 year old level. But in other areas I am a little child. I love kid's cartoons :D



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25 Dec 2010, 11:10 am

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The prefrontal cortex is the region at the front of the brain just behind the forehead, and is an area of the brain that undergoes the longest period of development. It is an important area of the brain for high cognitive functions such as planning and decision-making, and it is also a key area for social behavior, social awareness, for empathy and understanding and interacting with other people, and various personality traits.


Being not yet in my 30s or 40s, this seems like some optimistic news to me.


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25 Dec 2010, 12:10 pm

! !! !! !!

There is Hope yet!



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25 Dec 2010, 12:55 pm

The brain is fully mature then, not the mind. I know this all too well.

For some reason, I thought it was 25.



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25 Dec 2010, 12:59 pm

And then, it's Alzheimer.



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25 Dec 2010, 1:54 pm

The brain is most matured after it's been decomposing for 20 years. :lol:


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25 Dec 2010, 5:07 pm

From living through life, it does sound true, lol.



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22 May 2011, 6:20 pm

"15. And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims."

16. Those are the ones from whom We will accept the best of what they did and overlook their misdeeds, [their being] among the companions of Paradise. [That is] the promise of truth which they had been promised."

(Quran, 46: 15-16)



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22 May 2011, 6:31 pm

zena4 wrote:
And then, it's Alzheimer.



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22 May 2011, 6:32 pm

is it ever mature?

as i see it the neurons will connect in a unique way as life goes on so in some sense we are always physically "evolving" our brain.


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23 May 2011, 4:07 am

What is maturity anyway?

Not getting swept away by tides of neurochemicals so often? Well, yes. I'd agree that things like that happen more often when you're young.

Being able to balance learning, judgement and gut instinct to good effect? It'd be great if youngsters were better at that, but it doesn't happen often.



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23 May 2011, 8:04 am

peterd wrote:
Being able to balance learning, judgement and gut instinct to good effect? It'd be great if humans were better at that, but it doesn't happen often.


fixed it :lol:


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23 May 2011, 9:03 am

Uni wrote:
"15. And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims."

16. Those are the ones from whom We will accept the best of what they did and overlook their misdeeds, [their being] among the companions of Paradise. [That is] the promise of truth which they had been promised."

(Quran, 46: 15-16)


Interesting...


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03 Jun 2011, 7:18 am

The brain physically peaks in late adolescence or the early 20s.

The intellect peaks much later.

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