neurodevelopment Flashcards
research on migration in the neural tube of future neocortical neurons indicates that the destinations of migrating neurons are determined by location and ________
timing
The last part of the brain to reach full maturity is
Prefrontal cortex
Sperry’s experiments on eye rotation in frogs led to a hypothesis that explains how growth cones find their way to targets. The ______
Chemoaffinity hypothesis
In addition to radial migration of developing neurons there is also
Tangential Migration
Evidence suggest that autism spectrum disorder ____
Is caused by the interactions of many genes with eachother and the environment
In one study a few days of early monocular deprivation decreased the axonal ____ of lateral genticulate nucleus neurons that normally conducted signals from the deprived eye
Branching
The course of human cognitive development is though to reflect the course of the
prefrontal corte
Neuron death
is a stage of normal early neurodevelopment
In the first step of neurodev, A patch of ectoderm becomes the _____
Neural plate
Dorsal ectoderm cells are ______
totipotent (can develop into any varitety of body cells)
Proliferation is
Neurons rapid increase in number
T/F mammals are born with most of the neurons they will have ?
T
Two directions of migration
Tangential and Radial
Two methods of migration
Somal translocation and glial mediated migration
Somal Translocation
Developing cell puts out feelers and searches for cues- can be radial or tangential
Glial mediated migration
only radial , glial cells form network in neural tube , cell migration guided by network
In axon growth, axons/ filopedia are guided toward target cells by
Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs)
CAMs _______-
Attract or repel growth cones
Two types of cell death
Necrosis, Apoptosis
Apoptosis is
Active cell death- parts of cells are packaged and disposed of by microglia, and is safer than necrosis
Brain increases about ______ times in size from birth to adulthood. This is not due to _____ but due to _______, mylenation, and growth of dendrites
4, neurogenesis, synaptogenesis
A burst of synaptogenesis happens in the Audio / Visual cortex at _____ months and finishes around ______ months
4,7
Mylenation is most intense when
Shortly after birth
Mylenation begins in _______ , and progresses to _____
motor and sensory areas, cognitive areas