About 13 projects in expression and regulation concerned the nervous system, and institute scientists are leaders in
regulation of neural development, information storage in neurons, and sensory mechanisms.
In
studies of neural development in mice, Stahl found that TRNP1 produces a protein that determines whether neural stem cells self - replicate, leading to a balloonlike expansion of cortical surface area, or whether they differentiate into a plethora of intermediate stem cell types and neurons, thickening the cortex and forming more complex brain structures.
Research Mentor: Dr. Walter William Walthall Performed research on genetic
control of neural development using Caenorhabditis elegans, a small, free - living nematode.
According to Psychology Today, «Touchscreens offer an intuitive interface which enable toddlers to gain intense contingent sensory stimulation during a peak
period of neural development and at an age when the relatively immature motor and linguistic systems have previously limited cognitive stimulation.»
«To reach their target, growing axons rely on molecules known as guidance cues, which instruct them on which direction to take by repelling or attracting them to their destination,» explains Dr. Charron, Director of the Molecular
Biology of Neural Development research unit at the IRCM.
A basic
tenet of neural development is that young neurons make far more connections than they will actually use, with very little specificity.
Loveland Academy is dedicated to excellence in teaching and the development and implementation of clinical and therapeutic methologies for the diagnosis and
treatment of neural development disorders in children and young adults with autism and special needs.
For example, the exposure to unpredictable and uncontrollable stressors during sensitive
periods of neural development can influence midbrain development and the functional development of attachment relationships, the prefrontal cortex and the functional development of executive function, and the hypothalamic pituitary axis and the regulation of stress responses (Castellanos and Tannock 2002; Boyce 2016).