A rough estimate of the age range for adolescence in rats is between 30-50 days of age (Little et al., 1996). ... One key benefit of this process is that it allows a child's brain to be sculpted by his/her interactions with the outside world (Chugani, 1998). ... A substantial number of synapses are eliminated, or pruned, in the cortex during adolescence, and this process is presumably influenced, at least in part, by interactions with the outside world (Huttenlocher, 1979; Lidow et al., 1991; Seeman, 1999). ... As in the frontal lobes, gray matter volumes in the parie...

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