12/10/2025
Proof of life! I am too long between posts but this is a a good one. Hot new bit of brain science that will literally be re-writing portions of curriculum around brain development across the lifespan. Short version? Your brain continues to "re-wire" across the lifespan vs. old thinking that you top out at mid to late 30s on brain plasticity (and fight to keep what you have). Now they present 5 distinct "epochs" of brain development through the human lifespan. The difference in the paradigm now? You go from inefficient but exploratory to increasingly efficient but less exploratory across the lifespan.
"Sounds like you and the word 'epoch' have a lot of catching up to do." - Rick Sanchez
Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.
