At least 50 shades of grey cells!

WERE you as suspicious as I was this week to read new research into the way our brains develop and age? It all seemed so pat, so neatly boxed-off and predictable.

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The study, conducted at Cambridge University and involving brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged between nought and 90, claims to have identified five key stages of ageing. It found our lives are divided by four key “turning points” between each phase, which are: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, early ageing and late ageing.