Post-natal Brain Development

By how much does the brain grow after birth?

Why does the increase in size of brain, in most areas, not a result of development of new neurons?

What are the three kind of growth which explains the increase in size of post-natal brain?

Why is there an interest in post natal synaptogenesis?

What is the rate of synaptogeneis in the cortex after birth?

What does myelination do?

What does myelination of various areas of the human brain reflect?

What are the three general area steps of myelination?

In general, what does the pattern of dendrite branching copy?

How long does it take even mature dendrites to change their shape?

What is an example of regressive changes after birth?

What has been suggested to underlie the greater plasticity of the younger brain?

What have several structural MRI studies of the developing brain focused on?

How fast does cortical white matter grow?

How does gray matter grow?

What marks the full maturation of an area, reaching functional maturity?

Out of all the brain areas, what has the most prolonged development?

What is belied to be the cause of the human cognitive development?

What are the four types of cogntive development linked to prefrontal cortex?

How have cognitive functions been linked to the prefrontal cortex?

What is preservation?

What did Diamond (1991) hypothesize in regard to preservation?

What evidence is there for Diamond's (1991) hypothesis?

What is involved in over coming perservation?

When does synaptogeneis in prefrontal cortex become maximal?

What does experience have in early development?

Neurodevelopment occurs through the interaction between, what?

What is permissive experiences?

What are instructive experiences?

What is an important feature of the effects of experience on development?

What is a critical period?

What is a sensitive period?

What are most experiential effects on development?

What is the general principle which seems to characterize the effects of experience on development on all neural circuits?

What is the main advantage of developing slowly?

What are the two general manipulations of experience early research focused on?

What was found when animals were reared in the dark?

What happens when animals are in an enriched environment?

What can depriving one eye of input for a few days in early life cause? Does the same effect occur if both eyes are covered?

What can change the pattern of synaptic input into layer 4 of the primary visual cortex?

Occular dominance columns in layer 4 of the primary visual cortex is almost fully developed at birth, but what is the sensitive period of depriving an eye of light?

Who found a structural change due to depriving an eye of light for a few days? And what was the change?

Who surgically altered the course of developing axons of ferrets' retinal ganglion cells so the axons synapsed in the medial geniculate nucleus of the auditory over visual? What was found?

Who raised barn owls with vision-displacing prisms over their eyes, and what did it cause?

What have several studies found in regard to early music training?

What happens long before the nervous system is fully developed? What does this result in?

What does the fine-tuning constitute in development?

Why are there still gaps in the research?