Does a teenager's brain physically change?

Does a teenager's brain physically change?
We get lean and mean as adults. Unnecessary synapses actually are pruned off, so that whole process is is actually happening. Happens in childhood, It's happening in the teenage years. Absolutely. Changing dynamically, this structure is about 80% complete around puberty and you've got much more myelination as I mentioned, connectivity to go. And you also have a pruning process of your synapses. We get lean and mean as adults. Unnecessary synapses actually are pruned off, so that whole process is is actually happening. Happens in childhood, it's happening in the teenage years. And teleologically it's probably because this, the brain at that point is customizing itself for what it believes is going to be the environment in which it would live for the rest of the life. Today we move all over the place from different cultures that some of the skills that you you know might hardwire in your teen years may not be the most useful later if you've moved into completely different culture.
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