The way our brains age helps us develop more self-control as we get older

Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2017/06/way-brains-age-helps-us-develop-self-control-get-older/

I’m much better at controlling myself now than I was when I was a kid. I’m more organized and less impulsive. Why is that? What happened in my brain to make this happen? A study published yesterday in Current Biology could have a clue. Scientists studied the changes that happen in the brain as kids…