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Brain Structure
Growth
MISC
100
This describes the concept that brains are designed to grow and adapt as a function of our environment
What is Plasticity?
100
Child stops growing despite apparently normal health, but due to malnutrition and/or neglect: both physical and emotional
What is Failure to Thrive
100
An infant's sleep patterns consist mainly of this
What is REM
200
The great increase in the number of dendrites that occurs in an infant's brain during the 1st and 2nd years of life
What is Transient Exuberance?
200
When nutrition is inadequate, but the brain keeps growing
What is head-sparing?
200
When unused neurons atrophy and die because experiences have not caused the neurons to connect
What is Pruning/Sculpting?
300
The area of the brain that is least developed at birth, and what is the reason why
What is the Visual Cortex, because the baby has nothing to see in-utero
300
The tendency for children to be severely underweight for their age as a result of malnutrition.
What is Wasting?
400
Most developed part of the brain at birth, and why the acute development?
What is the Auditory Cortex?
400
An infant's inborn drive to use whatever experiences available to develop the brain
What is Self-Righting?
400
Define the following reflexes: Babinski reflex Stepping reflex Palmar grasping reflex
What are; Babinski reflex = Toes fan up when feet are stroked Stepping reflex = infants move legs as if walking when held upright Palmar Grasping reflex = things touching palm, grasp tightly
500
During THIS ACTIVITY there is a dramatic increase in the release of essential growth hormones
What is Sleep
500
Explain the difference between Gross motor function and Fine motor function
Gross = coordinating many parts of the body (jumping) Fine = small body movements (tongue, fingers)