Newspapers talk about the changing timetable of adulthood.

By adulthood teens strengthen heavily used circuits and prune back unused ones.

As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood.

But at no point does it return to the levels we see in early adulthood.

So we're not empty vessels the mental models that we have as children persist into adulthood.

I carried that fascination with me into adulthood, and it grew as my grasp on it all increased.

Doctors told the Sylejmanis that if Fjolla did not get treatment, she would almost certainly die before adulthood.

Half the children in ancient Rome die before they reach adulthood, so this is a particularly important milestone.

Research has found that individuals who encounter violence and abuse as children have an increased risk of depression in adulthood.

Faced with severely limited resources, a smaller sized child with reduced energy requirements will, in fact, have a better chance of living to adulthood.

The experience of Down syndrome people includes those who are actors, those who are writers, some who are able to live fully independently in adulthood.

We're talking about 15 percent of the population, or 100 percent if you consider that no one's getting through adulthood without going through their 20s first. (Laughter)

You may not know this word, but it should be your biological first name and last name. Because neoteny means the retention of immature qualities into adulthood.

Towards the front of the brain is the place in which all of the more complex thought, decision making it's the last to mature in late adulthood.

Now, the cartoon is not such an exaggeration, because studies of identical twins who were separated at birth and then tested in adulthood show that they have astonishing similarities.

This reaction expands into adulthood and becomes sort of a full blown disgust response, no longer just about whether or not we're about to be poisoned, but whenever there's a threat of physical contamination from some source.

It's what I now have the privilege of saying to twentysomethings like Emma every single day Thirty is not the new 20, so claim your adulthood, get some identity capital, use your weak ties, pick your family.

We know that the brain caps off its second and last growth spurt in your 20s as it rewires itself for adulthood, which means that whatever it is you want to change about yourself, now is the time to change it.

Addressing early childhood development gaps by promoting sustained parenting skills and improving the availability or affordability of quality services in the first 1,000 days of life could go a long way in enhancing opportunities for Roma children well into adulthood.

And as an adult, re finding these communities has re introduced me to a community of learners, and has encouraged me to continue to be a learner even in my adulthood, so that I no longer feel like learning is something reserved for the young.

My GPA was consistently in the low 2s, and I think the reason that I was such a terrible student is that I felt like education was just a series of hurdles that had been erected before me, and I had to jump over in order to achieve adulthood.

look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.