Transcript Clinical Neuroscience by Kelly Lambert and Craig Howard Kinsley Chapter 6 Neurodevelopment Over the Life Span.

Clinical Neuroscience
by Kelly Lambert and Craig Howard Kinsley
Chapter 6
Neurodevelopment Over the Life
Span
Perspectives
Prenatal Brain Development
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Emergence and Journey of the Brain’s Neurons
Establishing and Fine-Tuning the Brain’s
Circuits
Postnatal Brain Development
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Infancy and Childhood
Adolescence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
The Aging Brain
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Normal Aging Processes
Neurogenerative Decline: Alzheimer’s Disease
and Parkinson’s Disease
Development of Key Neurohormonal
Circuits
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Sexual Differentiation and Brain Development
Development of Key Neurohormonal Circuits (cont.)
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Development of the Stress Response
Mom’s impact on the developing stress response
 Stress and aging
 Sex differences in the stress response
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Scientific Interventions with
Developmental Neurobiology
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Stem Cells
Mammalian Cloning
Summary