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How does the development of the brain show that control emotions is a big part of becoming an adult?

“While neuroscience has given us answers about how the prefrontal cortex develops, how it functions when it’s fully developed, and how it affects us as individuals, the fact is there are individual differences in brain development​9​, and different regions of the brain develop at different rates​10​.That means that some people will reach maturity before others.”

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Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part. In teens' brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not always at the same rate. That’s why when teens have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling.