OT: Today I Turn 33...!

[Darryl Moore]

Hmmm, that might explain why, by the age of 16, the centre for deep
thought and moral judgement shifts from the brain to other anatomical
regions which have also undergone recent growth spurts.
:-)

David J Patrick wrote:
> Paul King wrote:
>>> David J Patrick <djp at ...> writes:
>>>> Just face it Tyler, the brain is at it biggest and best at about age 9.
>>>> It's downhill from there, compensated by experience.
>> But David is right. At around age 9, the head of the child is
>> disproportionally larger than the rest of the body, then stops growing
>> as the rest of the body catches up
> 
> In fact, the brain forms ~6 billion synaptic connections, between the
> ages of 2 and 4, and then those new connections decay to about 3 billion
> by puberty. A toddlers learning ability is never repeated so (hey new
> parents) this is the window.
> djp
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