At 31, there are moments in life that make me feel like I’ve got my s**t together and others that leave me screaming, crying and proclaiming, ‘I’m just a baby’.

According to a new study , the latter might actually be true, as the official age at which you ‘become an adult’ has been revealed – and it seems I’m not quite there yet.

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have claimed that on average, adolescence (the period during which you develop from a child into an adult ) actually lasts until the age of 32.

So if you’re approaching the big 3-0 and still don’t feel like a fully-fledged adult, you might want to cut yourself some slack.

What happens to our brain in our 30s?

Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit compared the brains of 3,802 people between

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