Development Of The Human Brain

A significant element in a child’s life is a relationship with their parent and central to this is the aspect of infant-mother bond (Cook, 1999). Parents play a critical role in modeling the adult lives of their children. A research on early brain development revealed that early intervention of warm and receptive care given to children is critical for their growth. It is vital to encourage and offer optimum care for the young children. The way a child is nurtured is a factor in their early brain development. Positive nurturing care and love towards children in their infanthood up to around 6 years results in a positive brain growth (Tribble, 2012). With both parents working, adverse effects on child development may be experienced. Children

Babies grow and change so much in the first two years of life, and many of those growth are directly related to the brain. Brain grows so rapidly than any other organ and reaches 75% by the age of 2. Communication within the central nervous system and spinal cord begins with neurons. The final part of the brain prefrontal cortex matures.

Children develop cognition through two main stages that Jean Piaget theorized. The stages run from birth and infancy to school age children. Sensorimotor is the first stage and goes from birth to about the age of two. This stage implies that the children learn about the environment they live in and they learn this through the reflexes and movements they produce. They also learn that they are separate people from their parents and they can say goodbye to them and know they will come back. The second stage is called the preoperational stage. During this stage of development, children will learn how to incorporate symbols to represent objects. This is also the beginning of learning the alphabet and speech. The child is still very much egocentric at this point in time, but with the help of understanding educators, the child will grow appropriately onto the next stages of development. Finally, the children need to develop emotionally/socially.

While the stages of cognitive development identified by Piaget are associated with characteristic age spans, they vary for every individual. I remember reading about the girl who was locked up in a room with no furniture but a mattress, and a dog for a long time. And when the authorities finally got her out, the little girl thought she was a dog. And even years later after she got help and therapy, her brain was never able to develop and be right like it should, even

Your brain is a very powerful thing. It controls everything about you. Your thoughts, your actions, your emotions. Everything we see, feel and do are actions of our brain. Our brains are the most complex things in this world. They start to develop at just 4 weeks in the womb. They form more connections then stars in the sky. In the Pbs series “The Secret life of the Brain” they divide your brains life into 5 parts, the babies brain, the child’s brain, the teenage brain, the adult brain and the aging brain.

Development encompasses more than just the changes the body and mind goes through, and many psychologists study the relationship between physical, cognitive, and social development. Physical development begins at conception, whereas cognitive development does not begin until the fetal stage. During this time, the brain becomes much more sophisticated, the hemispheres grow rapidly and the interconnections between

The prefrontal cortex is the last part of the brain that is fully developed. Historically, scientists thought that brain growth and development ceased at age three. Current research indicates that the brain goes through extreme growth and development during the adolescent period. Only 80% of the brain is developed at this adolescent stage, and it is not fully developed until age 25-30

Infant learning and brain development is fragile and contingent upon numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The most critical time frame for infant brain development is from the second trimester to the first three months of life (Marshall, 2011). During this time, neural pathways are forming, areas of the brain are maturing, and brain development is rapid. From infancy until the age of 3 years, neural pathways are still being formed in response to stimulation and for this reason, it is extremely important for caregivers and parents to be aware of the many factors that can influence brain development in infants (Marshall, 2011).

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed scientists to study the brain in ways that have led to new understanding about how young children develop. There is a new understanding of both the capabilities and the vulnerabilities of infants and young children and that understanding is has influenced the work of caregivers and teachers. During pregnancy, the basic architecture of the brain is formed. Although, certain experiences do influence the developing brain during pregnancy, such as maternal health and stress, intake of drugs and/or alcohol, and quality of maternal nutrition.

| At birth children start to develop survival and micro reflexes. They learn simple activities like grasping and sucking.At 3 months they learn how to smile and make eye contact. They learn to show that they are enjoying your company. Children learn how to show elements

Central nervous system (CNS) development is complex, as genetic and environmental factors influence rapidly occurring processes throughout prenatal life. During CNS development, phylogenetically primordial regions of the brain develop first, followed by more complex structures. When this procedure is disrupted, teratogenic outcomes are often observed, leading to serious mental or motor dysfunctions if not fetal death (Martin and Dombrowski, 2008). Thus the prenatal CNS is vulnerable to environmental factors, such as folate deficiency (FD), during rapidly developing periods, producing detrimental outcomes, for example neural tube defects (NTD).

Questions about the human brain have been a topic that many scientists and philosophers have focused on for centuries, trying to understand and learn the way it truly works . Over these past ten years, scientists have been the most successful in brain development, due to a large amount of research on this fascinating subject. Different ways to keep the brain stimulated have been an important topic while learning about the brain over the years due to its large importance. The human brain needs to be worked everyday in order for it to maintain a healthy state. Every time a new piece of information is taken in, different areas of your brain are put to use. It has been found that the more often stimulation of the brain occurs it enables the brain to be able to perform better on a daily basis and for longer periods of time.

Greetings class. I am Professor Valle and today we will discuss the development of the nervous system. Before we begin with the subject, I would like to share a small clip. Please focus on the signs and symptoms seen on the clip. (At this point I will show the clip on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9R4cjdCGoY, it will last no more than 3 minutes). Did you see anything wrong between the couple? If so who was it? What were some of the signs and symptoms that you noticed throughout the clip? Yes, you are all correct. This was a day to day life of someone living with Alzheimer’s disease. Notice how the wife was not able to do basic survival task. She was not able to put her shoes on, hygiene, eat, sleep, or exercise without assistance. She had also lost her memory, she kept asking her husband who are you? Even though he was constantly taking care of her on the daily basis. This type of mental illness affects 10% of people over the age of 65 (Turner, 2006). I did not show you guys the clip to be scared of what the future might hold, I showed you the clip to demonstrate an example of a disorder caused by a disturbance in brain cell growth.

Brain development in the first two years is the most important and critical. Maria Montessori referred to this time as of the "absorbent mind" Early brain development is the frame work for the road ahead. When and how the brain develops in the first two years will play a critical role into adulthood. At birth, the brain is the only incomplete organ. The brain will continue to grow through childhood and adolescents.

You live and you learn, from the moment that we breathe our first breath, we are assimilating and are acquiring information. Life changing and profound learning experiences happen before we can even speak, as children our learning process is grandiose. Harvard University published a series of summaries on Child development. One of these articles mentions that “The basic architecture of the brain is constructed through an ongoing process that begins before birth and continues into adulthood.” ("InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development," n.d.).