
The article I found discusses the links between prenatal development and brain maturation through and after puberty. They studied different environments in which a fetus was developed and linked it to different characteristics that came out after in life including growth and brain function/ development. This article relates not only to what we are currently learning but also what we will be learning throughout the semester. It ties in prenatal development, which we are going over now, and links it to the growth over the early life span, which we will continue to learn this semester.
Armin Raznahan, Deanna Greenstein, Nancy Raitano Lee, Liv S. Clasen, & Jay N. Giedd. (2012). Prenatal growth in humans and postnatal brain maturation into late adolescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(28), 11366-11371.
This article relates to class by talking about the maturation process and the different characteristics which we talked about in class on Wednesday. This also relates to the motor development and overall class. For the... more » 01-24-2019 7:19pm