The Basics of Brain Development

By Joan Stiles, Terry L. Jernigan. Neuropsychology Review, 2010

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Over the past several decades, significant advances have been made in our understanding of the basic stages and mechanisms of mammalian brain development. Studies elucidating the neurobiology of brain development span the levels of neural organization from the macroanatomic, to the cellular, to the molecular. Together this large body of work provides a picture of brain development as the product of a complex series of dynamic and adaptive processes operating within a highly constrained, genetically organized but constantly changing context. The view of brain development that has emerged from the developmental neurobiology literature presents both challenges and opportunities to psychologists seeking to understand the fundamental processes that underlie social and cognitive development, and the neural systems that mediate them. This chapter is intended to provide an overview of some very basic principles of brain development, drawn from contemporary developmental neurobiology, that may be of use to investigators from a wide range of disciplines.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics

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Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging (2014, background): “From before birth through adolescence, there is evidence of rapid growth of the brain in terms of synaptogenesis, neurogenesis, and neuronal migration, which yields increases in both gray and white matter density (for reviews, see Stiles & Jernigan, 2010; Tau & Peterson, 2010).”
Development of large-scale functional networks from birth to adulthood: a guide to neuroimaging literature (2017, background): “…events (e.g. neurogenesis, cell death, myelination, pruning, synaptic plasticity, and glial development) (Innocenti and Price, 2005; Stiles and Jernigan, 2010) and that FC aberrations may point towards the etiological bases of neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g. (Swartz and Monk,…”
The early development of brain white matter: a review of imaging studies in fetuses, newborns and infants. (2014, background): “All these processes of overproduction/elimination are essential to sustain the functional networks plasticity (Stiles and Jernigan 2010).”
The Development of Brain White Matter Microstructure (2018, background): “Infancy and early childhood encompass the period of peak brain growth, but brain structure continues to be refined and remodeled throughout childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood in response to genetics and environmental conditions (Rice and Barone, 2000; Stiles and Jernigan, 2010).”
The Central Nervous System and the Gut Microbiome (2016, background): “In the cerebral cortex, which is most elaborated in humans (Geschwind and Rakic, 2013), neural progenitor cells (NPCs; also known as radial glial cells) proliferate in the ventricular zone.”
The Cellular and Molecular Landscapes of the Developing Human Central Nervous System (2016, neutral): “…progression of myelination, and tractography over the same ages have been noted in certain neurological and psychiatric disorders (Lee et al., 2014; Stiles and Jernigan, 2010; Tau and Peterson, 2010), highlighting the importance of the appropriate regulation of these prolonged human…”
Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics (2025, unknown): “This sensitivity interacts with genetic predispositions to affect the speed and maximal change of cognitive and neural development [64].”