Sentences with phrase «early brain development occurs»

Early brain development occurs at lightning speed, creating more than one million new neural connections every second.

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Furthermore, statistics from The National Institute for Early Childhood Education Research estimates 90 percent of children's critical brain development occurs by age five.

She found that milestone achievement was abnormal in these monkeys: at six to eight weeks they were slow in starting to manipulate, and at ten months the increase in «motor disturbance behaviors» that normally occurs was prolonged.101 The author concludes, «These effects could occur as a result of effects on vulnerable brain processes during a sensitive period, interference with programming of [normal] brain development by endogenous [internal] agents or alteration in early experiences.»

Neither set of pups developed microcephaly, which Diamond says could be because the researchers infected the mothers so early during pregnancy that not much brain development had yet occurred.

Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: «It is too early to classify schizophrenia as either a neurodevelopmental (impairment of the growth and development of the brain) or a neurodegenerative (progressive loss of structure or function of neurons) disorder, as both seem to occur over the course of the illness.

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One of the key statistics underpinning the campaign is the fact that 90 per cent of brain development occurs before the age of five years — and this is the kind of detail that the NSW Government hopes will impress upon parents the importance of ensuring their young children gain maximum benefit from early education.

Cerebral palsy occurs when an infant suffers brain damage to the cerebrum in its early development, usually while in the womb or during the birthing process.

Based on these results, our hypothesis is that anatomo - functional anomalies in the STS occurring early across brain development could constitute the first step in the cascade of neural dysfunction underlying autism.

Rather, their behaviors occur as a result of altered brain development due to early abuse and neglect.

Research overwhelmingly points to the benefits of supporting children and families at an early age to prevent maltreatment and its negative effects on brain development before they occur.