It's always been conventional wisdom that girls reach maturity more quickly than boys,but now scientists have provided some proof .
In a new research ,an international group of researchers led by a team from Newcastle University in England found that girls' brain march through the reorganization and pruning typical of normal brain development earlier than boys' brains.In the study ,in which 120 people between the age of 4 to 40 were scanned using MRI's ,the scientists documented the ebb and flow of new neural connections ,and found that some brain fibers that bridged far flung regions of the brain tended to remain stable , while shorter connections , many of which are redundant , were edited away.And the entire reorganization seemed to occur sooner in girls than in boys' brain.
Girls also tended to have more connections across the two hemispheres of the brain.The researchers believe that the earlier reorganization in the girls make the brain work more efficiently, and therefore reach a more mature state for processing the environment. What drives the gender - based .in timing isn't clear from the current study , but the results suggest that may be a question worth investigating .
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In a new research ,an international group of researchers led by a team from Newcastle University in England found that girls' brain march through the reorganization and pruning typical of normal brain development earlier than boys' brains.In the study ,in which 120 people between the age of 4 to 40 were scanned using MRI's ,the scientists documented the ebb and flow of new neural connections ,and found that some brain fibers that bridged far flung regions of the brain tended to remain stable , while shorter connections , many of which are redundant , were edited away.And the entire reorganization seemed to occur sooner in girls than in boys' brain.
Girls also tended to have more connections across the two hemispheres of the brain.The researchers believe that the earlier reorganization in the girls make the brain work more efficiently, and therefore reach a more mature state for processing the environment. What drives the gender - based .in timing isn't clear from the current study , but the results suggest that may be a question worth investigating .
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