Anyone who has aged can tell you that we see the world differently as we age. It is also common for us as we are older to know something or some fact, yet it takes a while to be able to find and verbalize that fact. For those of us in our 60’s, recall sometimes takes a while. In a recent article published in The University of Cambridge newsletter, they have identified four major turning points, around the ages of 9, 32,66 and 83. This is believed to cause five separate ages of neurological wiring in our brains. A study led by Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit compared the brains of 3,802 people between zero and ninety years old using datasets of MRI diffusion scans, which map neural connections by tracking how water molecules move through brain tissue. The study was recently published in the journal Nature Communications. According to the study, the brain has four major turning points from birth until a turning point at the age of nine, when it transitions to the adolescent phase – an era that lasts right up to the age of 32, on average. The article goes on to describe the Childhood, adolescent, adult, early aging and finally late aging brain and how the brain functions during each phase. Check out the article below Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime