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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.

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