Parts of the Brain
The largest brain structure in humans. It makes up 70% of the brain and 85% of the brain's weight.
What is the cerebrum?
The leading cause of mental handicaps and learning disabilities in infants, this disease happens when a mother consumes much alcohol during pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
The periods of time in development in which the brain is open to a specific type of experience to result in a specific talent.
What are critical windows of opportunity?
Children grow these feelings for their caregiver if they receive nurture and kindness.
This part of the brain along with the spinal cord helps control breathing and blood pressure.
What is the brain stem?
One of the eight regions most directly affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, this section of the brain senses danger, fear, and anxiety.
What is the amygdala?
The period of time (or age) in which people have the most potential to grow with the largest critical windows of opportunity in their lives.
What is the first three years of life?
Anxious-avoidant, anxious-resistant, and disoriented behaviors are signs of this type of attachment.
This type of motor skill includes running, jumping, sitting up, and crawling.
What are gross motor skills?
Known as "the little brain", this part of the brain receives signals from the cerebrum and controls coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Growth deficiencies, facial deformities, learning problems, low birth weight, and cognitive disabilities are just some of the effects of this harmful behavior during pregnancy.
What are the effects of drinking during pregnancy?
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What are the signs of Fetal Alcohol syndrome?
The number of synapses a baby has at birth.
What is 50 trillion?
Parents who have this type of attachment are typically more sensitive to the needs of the baby, quicker to respond to uneasiness, more affectionate and loving, and better at comforting the infant.
What is secure attachment?
This type of motor skill includes actions like coloring, using silverware, and playing with a toy.
What are fine motor skills?
Known as "the Grand Central Station" of memory, this part of the brain encodes information into memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Fetuses are most at risk for physical deformations caused by alcohol consumption during this trimester.
What is the first trimester?
If children are not exposed to these certain repeated behaviors, their brains are often 20-30 percent smaller than children who are exposed to it.
What is the importance of play and frequent touch?
What is crying?
The mental process through which we think, learn, and communicate.
These fine thread-like tenacles that branch out of the cell body receive signals as chemical messages from axons of other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Women who use or abuse marijuana during pregnancy are 1.5x more likely to have a child with this developmental disorder.
What is autism?
A child's brain has reached 90% of its adult weight by this age.
What is five years of age?
What are mothers?
What is moral development?