Question

What does the prefrontal cortex do? What happens to grey matter in adolescence? What does this mean?

Answer 1

Adolescence is a time of significant growth and development inside the teenage brain. The main change is that unused connections in the thinking and processing part of your child's brain (called the grey matter) are 'pruned' away. ... The front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, is remodelled last.