John Gordon on Nostr: Perplexity found me a 2013 review that claimed "Pruning during adolescence is highly ...

Perplexity found me a 2013 review that claimed "Pruning during adolescence is highly specific and can be pronounced, resulting in a loss of close to 50% of the synaptic connections in some regions, but with little decline in others ... likely contribute to the increases in brain efficiency seen during adolescence, reflected by the declines in brain energy utilization seen through adolescence in humans and other species"