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Brain's risk-taking function not developed until 25
Neuroscience, development play roles
Now this is an interesting article:A National Institutes of Health study suggests that the region of the brain that inhibits risky behavior is not fully formed until age 25, a finding with implications for a host of policies, including the nation's driving laws.
'We'd thought the highest levels of physical and brain maturity were reached by age 18, maybe earlier -- so this threw us,' said Jay Giedd, a pediatric psychiatrist leading the study, which released its first results in April. That makes adolescence 'a dangerous time, when it should be the best.' Of course, there's a criticism the study only impies a correlation and not an exact relationship. But the correlation exists nonetheless, confirming what car insurance firms have known for years.
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