Pruning Brain Connections May Explain Why Girls Seem To Mature Faster

As we age, our brains undergo a major reorganization, a 'pruning' which streamlines the connections in the brain - except the long-distance ones that are crucial for integrating information.  Studying people up to the age of 40, authors of a paper in Cerebral Cortex suspect this newly-discovered selective process might explain why brain function does not deteriorate – and indeed improves –during this pruning of the network. Interestingly, they also found that these changes occurred earlier in females than in males.  read more

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