© 2025 WFAE

Mailing Address:
WFAE 90.7
P.O. Box 896890
Charlotte, NC 28289-6890
Tax ID: 56-1803808
90.7 Charlotte 93.7 Southern Pines 90.3 Hickory 106.1 Laurinburg
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

What era is your brain in?

A brain-scanning MRI machine is seen in Pittsburgh, Nov. 26, 2014. (Keith Srakocic/AP)
Keith Srakocic/AP
A brain-scanning MRI machine is seen in Pittsburgh, Nov. 26, 2014. (Keith Srakocic/AP)

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan talks with Duncan Astle, professor of neuroinformatics at the University of Cambridge, about a new study his team conducted examining people’s brains from birth to old age. The findings may surprise you; those adolescent years last a lot longer than you think.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2025 WBUR

Here & Now Newsroom