Trajectories of brain development: point of vulnerability or window of opportunity?

By S. Andersen. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2003

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Variability of practice as an interface between motor and cognitive development (2016, background): “Since, however, such mechanisms involve neurochemical processes that are also critical to brain development during its transition phases (Andersen, 2003; Casey, Getz, & Galvan, 2008), it has been proposed that PA can positively impact the developing brain through these same mechanisms (Chaddock, Pon”
Normal Development of Brain Circuits (2010, background): “…(Knickmeyer et al, 2008) and is consistent with postmortem studies showing that the elaboration of dendrites, spines, and synapses continues to accelerate at a near logarithmic pace through the first 350–400 postnatal days (Andersen, 2003; Bourgeois, 1997; Lund and Lewis, 1993; Supèr et al, 1998).”
Pubertal hormones organize the adolescent brain and behavior. (2005, background): “Adolescence is clearly pivotal for behavioral development [1,3,23,120], and the adolescent brain is clearly more plastic than the adult brain in response to insult [83,127].”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “Transitions thus represent both points of vulnerability and windows of opportunity (Anderson 2003).”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “It is also well established that younger individuals have greater neural plasticity than do older individuals (e.g., S. L. Andersen, 2003; C. A. Nelson, 2000); hence, one might expect effect sizes following assigned video-game training to be larger in children than in adults.”
Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems (2012, background): “These effects may independently or in conjunction with other factors (genotypic variation, postnatal conditions) impact subsequent long-term susceptibility for various neuropsychiatric disorders (5).”