Sunday 18 August 2013

10 amazing facts about brain development

Neurons develop at a rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.

A stimulating environment for a child can make the difference between a 25% greater ability to learn or 25% less in an environment with little stimulation.

The first sense to develop while in utero is the sense of touch. The lips and cheeks can experience touch at about 8 weeks and the rest of the body around 12 weeks.

Children who learn two languages before the age of five alters the brain structure and, as adults, have a much denser gray matter.

Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults.

Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.

The capacity for such emotions as joy, happiness, fear, shyness are already developed at birth. The specific type of nurturing a child receives shapes how these emotions are developed.

Studies have shown that child abuse can inhibit development of the brain and can permanently affect brain development.

A study showed that children with imaginary playmates between the ages of 3 and 9 tended to be first-born children.

At birth, your brain was almost the same size as an adult brain and contained most of the brain cells for your whole life.  

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