oh, there’s my prefrontal cortex!

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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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[video available on spotify] it’s my birthday. i’m 24, which means i’m almost 25. which means my prefrontal cortex is almost done developing. in honor of my 24th birthday, i thought it'd be kind of fun to discuss all of the evidence of my prefrontal cortex nearing its final stages of development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy birthday to me.
0:04.6	Happy birthday to me.
0:07.7	Happy birthday to me.
0:10.9	Happy birthday to me.
0:14.9	Happy birthday to me. Oh, it's my birthday. Yeah, it is. I'm 24. Time flies. But you know what that means? I'm almost 25. And you know what that means?
0:40.2	My prefrontal cortex is almost done developing. My brain is almost fully adult.
0:48.2	If you don't know what a prefrontal cortex is, to be honest, I don't really know either.
0:52.3	I know it's a part of the brain. I don't exactly know what
0:55.2	part it is. And that's kind of mortifying to admit for me, honestly, because I use the word,
1:02.3	the term prefrontal cortex so often. It's like in my vocabulary. And I don't really know
1:09.0	what part of the brain it is. So let's read the
1:12.9	definition together. The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that controls higher
1:19.3	order cognitive functions, including decision making, planning, and personality. And apparently,
1:27.4	it's pretty much done developing by your mid-20s,
1:32.4	approximately at age 25. So I'm almost a full-grown adult. And that's exciting because,
1:42.4	you know, from what I've heard from the adults in my life,
1:46.7	having a fully developed prefrontal cortex is pretty awesome because life in a lot of ways
1:52.9	is sort of easier, making decisions, planning things, coordinating things.
1:59.9	Those things are hard when you're younger. The older you get,
2:03.4	the more developed your prefrontal cortex is, the more wisdom you have, the easier it is to
2:08.9	deal with some of life's problems. And that's sort of a beautiful thing. But it is also sort of
2:14.0	terrifying to be approaching the end of the era where I can use the excuse that my
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