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What is the difference between the brain of a teenager and an adult?
Question Date: 2007-02-22
Answer 1:

This is an ill defined question because we can look at the brain anatomically or physiologically. The anatomy is the form and the physiology is the function. Anatomically, the teenage brain is making final connections and is still more plastic (easier to learn stuff) compared to the adult brain.


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