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THE BEST AGE FOR. Neuroscience has highlighted the key moments for acquiring self-control. A prerequisite: the emotional base.
Patience. The prefrontal cortex area builds very slowly. It is what allows reasoned decisions to be made.
By Claire Lefebvre
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VDoes your 17-year-old find it hard to put down his phone, TikTok and video games to do his homework? It’s normal ! If he can’t manage to discipline himself, it’s because his prefrontal cortex, this region of the brain located just behind the forehead which notably allows us to get out of our automatisms, to make reasoned decisions, to manage our emotions and to to learn, is not sufficiently developed. “This area is building very slowly. The neural circuits connecting it to the other parts of the brain are fully functional only around the age of 20-25. This means that the functions associated with this area can therefore be perfected until this late age. says Grégoire Borst, professor of developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience…
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