Documentary Description
In this episode, Michael Mosley traces our development from birth to
adulthood, and reveals that the human brain is so sophisticated it takes
more than twenty years to mature.
We see how new-born Phoebe makes sense of the world, and how
one-year-old Angelina copes with just half a functioning brain. We
discover how Moken sea Gypsy children train themselves to see clearly
underwater, and meet a Vietnamese girl who speaks 11 different
languages.
Michael shows his own teenagers remarkable scans which reveal just
how many brain connections we lose between the ages of 11 and 20. This
remodelling is an essential part of growing up, and helps explain teen
behaviour and their tendency to take risks - as illustrated by
Stephanie, the world's youngest stock car racer at the age of 13.
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