PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prefrontal Cortex, Parenting Styles, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Slide 15: a lot of research is done to see how the brain develops normally or abnormally and we try to look at how severe those abnormalities are if there are abnormalities. If there is impairment, how long that impairment lasts and how encompassing that impairment is: there are 2 critical periods where you see deficits emerge. In infancy there are a lot of things that can go wrong. So(cid:373)e thi(cid:374)gs that (cid:272)a(cid:374) go (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g duri(cid:374)g gestatio(cid:374) o(cid:374) slide: problems with nutrition, baby not being able to regulate their own temperature, a lot of brain development occurs before birth as well as after birth. Full blown sense of purpose and decision making emerges last (prefrontal cortex: this develops later on. If you are going to have a problem with sensory development, it is going to show early on because that is what develops first.
