Mental Health and Brain Health

Four pivotal ages in your brain’s development revealed in new scientific study

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James GallagherHealth and science correspondent

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The brain goes through five distinct phases in life, with key turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83, scientists have revealed.

Around 4,000 people up to the age of 90