Genes provide a blueprint for the brain, but a child’s environment and experiences carry out the construction. A single cell can connect with as many as 15,000 other cells! Synaptic density reaches its peak during the third year, up to 200 percent of its adult level. Better able to use the past t…
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The brain is a self-organizing organ. The connections eagerly await new experiences that will shape the brain into the neural networks for language, reasoning, rational thinking, problem-solving and moral values. Interestingly, the infants' brains look very similar at birth. You start seeing the…
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