Spread the loveBefore neuroimaging, many neuroscientists believed that only young brains could be expanded. They believed that all the brain’s memory-holding cells (neurons) were present at birth and that all or most of the connections between these neurons developed in the first year of childhood and then becomes permanent. We know that lifelong growth of the supporting and connecting cells enriching the communication between memory-holding cells, allied with associated increases in cognition and social-emotional skill sets, actively continues far beyond that first year. In the first year or two after birth, most of the brain’s development and activity is programmed … Continue reading How Brain Development Blossoms From Ages 2-7