When Does Your Brain Stop Developing?

How do you define adulthood? It's a difficult question because that delicate brain of yours stays squishy well after you start paying your own rent.

https://www.youtube.com/learnhowtoadult

Hosted by: Brit Garner
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
----------
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters:
Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Nicholas Smith, Tim Curwick, Alexander Wadsworth, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
----------
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/science/youre-an-adult-your-brain-not-so-much.html
http://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(16)30809-1.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhp118
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3131482/
http://fablab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Cohen%2C%20Breiner%2C%20Steinberg%2C%20et%20al%20%282016%29%20When%20is%20an%20adolescent%20an%20adult.pdf
http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/can-you-grow-new-brain-cells
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313284144_At_risk_of_being_risky_The_relationship_between_brain_age_under_emotional_states_and_risk_preference
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-synaptic-pruning-important-for-the-developing-brain/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21906988
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/know-your-neurons-what-is-the-ratio-of-glia-to-neurons-in-the-brain/

Видео When Does Your Brain Stop Developing? канала SciShow Psych