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Prefrontal Cortex Loses Neurons During Adolescence

Caption: Psychology professor Janice Juraska, right, and graduate student Julie Markham have found that adolescents begin to lose neurons in the prefrontal cortex

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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