Nevertheless, the study offers a novel way of studying brain development, and of investigating lissencephaly (or "smooth brain") and other neurological conditions that cause brain malformations.
In extreme cases, it causes deficient brain development and serious mental and physical retardation.
"It's also consistent with what we know about brain development and reading.
Research suggests that it helps with brain development and also mental illnesses.
These children may look normal but their brain development and immune systems most certainly are not.
She specifically calls for an investment in brain behavioural research as part of broad-based support for research on brain development and human behaviour.
So this makes culture not such an intangible factor of brain development and behavior.
Mercury poisoning can affect fetal growth, leading to poor brain development and impaired learning.
Most brain development and most major brain organization for each child happens in those first three years of life.
The stress they live under, he said, can affect their brain development and impede problem-solving skills and emotional development.
