For a long time, it was believed that the prefrontal cortex—the part of our brain responsible for decision-making and impulse control—didn’t fully develop until the age of 25, which is when we’d ...
1 Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Winnipeg, Canada 2 University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, Canada The final, formatted version of the article will ...