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I think that's a total misconception. I think the myth that "the brain stops developing at 25" was an apocryphal conclusion from a study where they simply stopp
by shrimp_emoji 3y ago
I think that's a total misconception. I think the myth that "the brain stops developing at 25" was an apocryphal conclusion from a study where they simply stopped measuring past 25 and that either the same study or other studies found many brain faculties don't plateau, ever, even in advanced age. I also heard that it's highly variable from person to person how the brain develops, like some 8-year-olds had faster development in some regions than some 30-year-olds.
One thing's for sure though: we're still in the stone age of neurology.
- fragmede 3y agoso primitive. but we're finding things out, from ultrasound surgery to cut out the addiction center of the brain, to influencing motivation/treating depression with magnetic/electrical fields with TMS and tdcs, we're ever so slightly making sharpened stones and crude axes of the stone age we're in
- octopusRex 3y agoYears ago we were taught that the brain could not grow. You had what you were born with and after your twenties it degraded. Now of course we are aware that the brain has plasticity. It can rewire itself, grow, learn.