The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
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Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.
Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.
I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
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