Adolescent brain maturation is characterized by the emergence of executive function
mediated by the prefrontal cortex, eg, goal planning, inhibition of impulsive behavior and set …

The selective elimination of axons, dendrites, axon and dendrite branches, and synapses,
without loss of the parent neurons, occurs during normal development of the nervous system …

Converging evidence indicates that a profound reorganization of human brain function takes
place during adolescence: the amount of deep sleep and the rate of brain metabolism fall …

The cytological organization and the timetable of emergence and dissolution of the transient
subplate zone subjacent to the developing visual and somatosensory cortex were studied in …

Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental
processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both …

The development of most regions of the vertebrate nervous system includes a distinct phase
of neuronal degeneration during which a substantial proportion of the neurons initially …

Recognition that posterior basal and medial parts of the prefrontal cortex belong to the
cortical component of the limbic system was important in understanding their anatomic and …

Development of the Nervous System presents a broad and basic treatment of the
established and evolving principles of neural development as exemplified by key …

EEG coherence was computed from 8 left and 8 right intrahemispheric electrode pairs from
253 children ranging in mean age from 6 months to 7 years. The first derivative of mean …

The adult mammalian neocortex consists of numerous' areas' distinguished from one
another largely on the basis of distinctions in cytoarchitecture and connections. The …