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Brain development involves five distinct epochs across a human lifespan.

Late aging initiates declines in connectivity around age 83 and alters region reliance.

Wiring differences potentially link to various neurodevelopmental and mental health challenges.

You’ve likely heard that the brain isn’t fully developed until someone’s around 26 years old. But did you know that the brain rewires itself throughout the lifetime?

University of Cambridge neuroscientists led a study that used magnetic resonance imaging to discover the brain doesn’t gradually rewire itself. They found the brain has distinct “epochs” to its structure, required to “support different ways of thinking while we grow, mature and ultimately decline,” per a news release on the study, which was published in the j

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