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[–] 13 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

I agree with you but the human brain is constantly developing throughout our lives. It's never fully developed.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    It never stops changing, but there is a significant freeze around 25. From about 12-25 there are massive changes to the brain. It also coincides with them first gaining true freedom, and learning the pros and cons of that.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    There was a study that stopped checking for rapid development at 25. They didn't show a "significant freeze" at 25, they just didn't gather any data after that.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    It's been a while, but I thought a follow-up study found it tapered off by around 23-25. The brain never stops changing, but the explosive changes of puberty also continue for longer than expected.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago

    Maybe, but it's definitely true that the frontal lobes are typically significantly underdeveloped in the under-25s, resulting in impulsive behaviour with less caution and poorer long term decision making.

    There's a time in your life when headlessly jumping out of the nest is absolutely the order of the day, and it's late teens and early twenties.

    Having a safety net isn't a bad thing at this point, at all.

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