PSYB32H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - Child's Growth - Brain, Body, Motor Skills, and Sexual Maturation
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Myelin retardation natal life: neural migration is the movement of neurons within the brain that ensures. Absence of sufficient connections can lead to complications like mental all brain areas have a sufficient number of neural connections: synapses are the connections in between neurons. Baby shows reflexive behaviour (rooting, startle responses) voluntary movement (reaching, crawling) purposeful movement (effort to make contact with an object: hemispheric specialization: Neuron proliferation is the rapid development of neurons in the brain at about 250 000 new neurons per minute: glial cells surround and protect neurons, providing nutrients and repairing. Myelination is the process by which glial cells encase neurons with tissue. Brain hemispheres are the two halves of the brain. Corpus collosum are the set of nerve fibres connecting the two. Hemispheric specialization is the different functioning hemispheres of the brain responsibilities of either hemisphere; speech and language are controlled by the left hemisphere, and visual-spatial processing is controlled by the right.
