Brains Don't Enter Their 'Adult Era' Until Well After 30

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You might have heard that the brain doesn’t mature fully until 25, though there’s little to no evidence to support this oft-repeated claim.

And personally, the results of a recent study, published in Nature Communications , make a lot more sense to me.

After looking at over 4,000 brain scans from participants aged zero to 90, researchers found that our minds seem to enjoy five “eras”, separated by four turning points which appear, on average, to happen at roughly the same ages.

The brain’s developmental shift to adulthood seemed to happen well after 30.

Dr Alexa Mousley, who led the research, told Cambridge University: “Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been characterised by different phases. It turns out that brains also go through these eras”