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Re:TikTok: All under-16s' accounts made private by mlboss on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:50AM (#25761346)
I think there is some research that maturity kicks in around 25. Something to do with neo frontal cortex development.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...

Re:TikTok: All under-16s' accounts made private by WindyLakeReturn on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:26AM (#25761681)
Myelination of our brains. In super simplified terms, it is over clocking our brains part by part. It continues until mid to late 20s.

>After infancy, the rate of myelination slowed during childhood and adolescence, but exhibited continued growth until the end of the third decade. Specifically, mean MFLD during later adulthood (defined as ≥28 y) was significantly greater than in adolescence and early adulthood (11–23 y; Welch t, P = 0.000059; Mann–Whitney U, P = 0.00016).

https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16480

Our (dorsolateral) prefrontal cortex is one of the last parts to myelinate.

>The last areas to myelinate are the anterior cingulate cortex (F#43), the inferior temporal cortex (F#44) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F#45).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelinogenesis

This is the area of the brain that handles things like planning and abstract reasoning (though it isn't the only area involved in such thinking).