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Brain Development Flashcards

1
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What are the three stages of the pre-natal period?

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Conceptual
Embryonic
Foetal

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What occurs in the conceptual period?

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Union of reproductive cells
Nuclei merge - result in 23 chromosomes

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What occurs in the embryonic period?

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Major organs begin to form
Heart begins to beat, blood is circulated
Cell division and differentiation

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What occurs in the foetal period?

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Origins of motor, sensory and learning behaviour
Continued development and differentiation of structures

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What are the 8 stages of neural development?

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Natalie puke maggots and Dan sings something French

Neuralation
Proliferation
Migration
Aggregation
Differentiation
Synaptogenesis
Selective cell death
Functional validation

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6
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What are the steps of embryonic formation?

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Cells multiply & differentiate
Inner cells cluster to leave a cavity
The outer walls implant into the uterine wall
Two types of tissue form from inner and outer cells

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What are the three layers of the trilaminar disc?

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Ectoderm
Mesoderm
Endoderm

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What is the endoderm?

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Inner layer - Internal organs (digestive, respiratory, etc)

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What is the mesoderm?

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Middle layer - skeletal and muscular structures

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What is the ectoderm?

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Outer layer - skin surface, nervous system

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What is the primitive streak?

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Marks bilateral symmetry in embryos

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Where does the neural plate form?

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On the ectoderm layer, opposite the primitive streak

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What is the notochord?

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Plays a core role in vertebrate development
Releases proteins that drive neuralation

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What occurs during neuralation?

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Edges of the neural plate curve and close from head to tail - becoming the complete central nervous system

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What severe disorders occur due to failures during neuralation?

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Spina Bifida
Anencephaly

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How does Spina Bifida occur?

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Failure of the closure of the spinal cord to close at the caudal end

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How does Anencephaly occur?

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Failure of the neural tube to close at the cranial end.
Foetus develops with a major portion of the brain, skull and scalp missing

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What do the three swellings of the neural tube form?

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Basis of human brain structure
Forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain

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What five brain regions develop from the forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain?

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Telencephalon
Diencephalon
Mesencephalon
Metencephalon
Myelencephalon
Spinal cord

20
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What occurs during proliferation?

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New cells are produced by dividing or proliferating
Stem cells, glial cells and neurons

21
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What occurs during migration?

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The movement of cells from the wall of the neural
tube to their end goal
Cells move in different directions according to their
specific cellular ‘destiny’

22
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What occurs during aggregation?

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Once they have reached their final destination, new cells line up with other neurons to make up the new brain

23
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What occurs during differentiation?

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Neurons do not take their final form until they have reached their final destination.
Once cells settle, they network.

24
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What does cell-autonomous differentiation mean?

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Cell growth and development that is pre-defined by a genetic programme

Ex: Purkinje cells

25
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What occurs during synaptogenesis?

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The development of synapses
Communication with each other and with organs
Continues throughout a person’s lifespan

26
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What occurs during selective cell death?

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Neural pruning
Survival of the fittest: neurons that have made
successful connections will survive
Occurs at different times in different areas of the
brain

27
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What occurs during functional validation?

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The process of growth (plasticity) and pruning across a lifespan
Nerve cells & axons continue to adapt their structure and function dependent upon environment input

28
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What structural changes occur in between the ages of 0 and 6?

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Dramatic period of synaptogenesis
Overproduction of synapses leads to competition between neurons
Neural pruning
Strengthening & elimination of neurons is dependent upon environmental demands and experience

29
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What structural changes occur after the age of 7?

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Development is far from complete
Notable surge in synapse growth just before puberty
Prominent period of pruning & plasticity during adolescence
Thought to contribute to refinement of brain connectivity

30
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What are the specific changes in brain structure during adolescent brain development?

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Prefrontal cortex – ‘higher order cognition’
Amygdala - emotions
Hypothalamus - hormones
Corpus callosum – connection between
hemispheres

31
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What are the global changes in during adolescent brain development?

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Increase in myelination – processing speed
Increase in pruning – fine tuning

32
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What changes occur to grey matter during adolescent brain development?

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Grey matter = cell bodies, dendrites & axon terminals
Inverted U-shaped curve across childhood & adolescence
Decrease in grey matter in adolescence represents the
process of fine-tuning

33
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What does regional maturation correlate with?

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Prefrontal cortex - intelligence and impulse control
Left hemisphere - language processing

34
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What changes occur to white matter during adolescent brain development?

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White matter = myelinated axons
Largely linear increase across development
Substantial maturation during adolescence especially those involved in emotional, social and cognitive control

35
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What is connectivity?

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The neural circuitry of the brain

36
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What changes occur to connectivity during adolescent brain development?

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Networks consist of brain regions that activate
and work together through their
interconnections
The formation & development of these
networks leads to more sophisticated
processing in maturity
Leads to more efficient and controlled
information processing

37
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What are the two major changes in connectivity during adolescent brain development?

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Cortical connections change from being large
and non-specific, to being more smaller and
more specialised
Dramatic increases in long-range connections

38
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How does adolescent brain development impact emotional processing?

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Amygdala volume increases over adolescence and young adulthood

39
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Why does social exclusion cause issues in adolescence?

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Adolescents show decreased activity in regions associated with regulation of rejection-related distress
compared to adults
When experiencing distress, adolescents aren’t able to recruit frontal regions needed to effectively
control feelings of rejection

40
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How does adolescent brain development impact social processing?

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Development of Theory of Mind/Mentalising

41
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What is Theory of Mind/mentalising?

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The ability to attribute mental states
(thoughts, intentions, desires, feelings, beliefs)
to others on the basis of their
social/emotional cues

42
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How does adolescent brain development impact ris-taking behaviours?

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Hormonal changes prompt changes in brain
regions associated with learning, memory &
experience of emotion
Prefrontal cortex is continuing its fine-tuning
in a largely linear pattern

43
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How does puberty impact risk-taking behaviours?

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Hormonal changes prompt changes in the amygdala and hippocampus associated with learning, memory &
experience of emotion.
Leads to increased sensitivity to emotion and reward = increase in sensation seeking behaviours

44
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How does executive function impact risk-taking behaviours?

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Prefrontal cortex is continuing its fine-tuning
in a largely linear pattern
Cognitive control & executive function
increasing with age over the adolescent
period (into early adulthood: up to 25)

45
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What are the implications for understanding prevention and intervention in the adolescent brain?

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Education
Law
Parenting
Advertising
Technology

46
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How does development happen?

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Development = genes * environment
it’s nature and nurture interacting

47
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How are learning and development related?

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Learning is supported by development and contributes to development

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