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When does adolescence really end?

n11/n12

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This is for a book I'm working on.

Just like the title says, generally speaking, at what age do most people's brains stop develping? In other words, at what age do we finally become adults?

I've heard that the the age is actually twenty-four (strangely enough, the same age you have to be to rent a car), but maybe someone here could point me towards a few peer-reviewed articles or web-sites.
 
n11/n12 said:
This is for a book I'm working on.

Just like the title says, generally speaking, at what age do most people's brains stop develping? In other words, at what age do we finally become adults?

I've heard that the the age is actually twenty-four (strangely enough, the same age you have to be to rent a car), but maybe someone here could point me towards a few peer-reviewed articles or web-sites.
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When you stop believing in conspiracy theories. Many people stay adolescents their entire lives.
 
NobbyNobbs said:
When you stop believing in conspiracy theories. Many people stay adolescents their entire lives.
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I agree with you...I guess (talk about left-field :confused:), but that's really not what I was getting at. I'm asking a simple neurobioligoy question.

Just so I know, did something in my OP smack of typical-conspiracy-nutjob?
 
n11/n12 said:
I agree with you...I guess (talk about left-field :confused:), but that's really not what I was getting at. I'm asking a simple neurobioligoy question.

Just so I know, did something in my OP smack of typical-conspiracy-nutjob?
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NobbyNobs's post was about adolescents, not you. A common element of adolescents and conspiracy-theorists (not to mention the religious, so I won't) is that everything is about them. And it's all so unfair :mad: .
 
Katana said:
But wait!

I'm not done yet!
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n11/n12 said:
I agree with you...I guess (talk about left-field :confused:), but that's really not what I was getting at. I'm asking a simple neurobioligoy question.

Just so I know, did something in my OP smack of typical-conspiracy-nutjob?
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I don't think it did, and I don't think anyone intended the answers to be serious. It's just too rich a source of bad jokes. I guess we're not all adults yet (says the person making a snide comment... ;))
 
Last I heard, early twenties is when the brain is pretty much "done" developing.
 
Dagnabit! You young whippersnappers don't know shinola from that other stuff. Whatever that means, I have no idea. I used to know, but now I got that oldtimers disease. I dismember the time that I was a juvenile in some detention hall all painted a nice calming puce color. They gave me so much Thorazine that I found myself in the alternate universe with the evil Kirk and Spock. After the bilateral suborbital prefrontal lobotomy, I recovered. Maybe.
 
bruto said:
When you stop blaming your parents for your own failures.
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Have you seen the new Rocky movie sequel? Great speech about not blaming others (including your parents) for your own failures. Probably the only good point about the movie.
 
By now, n11/n12, surely you will have realised, as I quickly did after joining this forum, that hoping to get here a serious answer to a serious scientific question you are assuming that:
- there is a member who has the specific knowledge you are asking
- this member actually happens to read your post
- this member has the time and the will to bother answering.
Given that chances of this happening are ridiculously small, all you get is wisecracks, mostly in good humour and worth a giggle, other just irritating.
So, unless you are so lucky that you would be better off trying a lottery, there are no shortcuts to doing your homework in the usual boring places, like university libraries. Google would be a better way to get some pointers...:)
 
n11/n12 said:
This is for a book I'm working on.

Just like the title says, generally speaking, at what age do most people's brains stop develping? In other words, at what age do we finally become adults?

I've heard that the the age is actually twenty-four (strangely enough, the same age you have to be to rent a car), but maybe someone here could point me towards a few peer-reviewed articles or web-sites.
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Define "developing". The brain maintains plasticity until you die. For example, if you are unfortunate enough to loose a limb, the part of the neural map that was used for the limb is reused.

There are windows were learning language occur, but they occur before the age of 10.
 
On a cold rainy night in early March when that no good two-timing bitch rips your heart out and smiles as she stomps on it. Then you have to walk home and re-evaluate who you are and what you are doing with your life and there is no beer in the fridge.

That happens to everybody, right?
 
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