The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of The Newborn Brain
What the brain looks like in the first twenty-eight days of life, which systems are already operational and which are decades away from completion, and why the newborn period is the most neurologically dense and developmentally consequential four weeks any brain will ever experience
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The newborn brain arrives into the world both remarkably prepared and profoundly unfinished. It can breathe, suckle, cry, and orient towards a face, but it cannot regulate its temperature, consolidate a memory, or inhibit a reflex. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of the newborn brain, examines which neural systems are operational at birth and which are still under construction, and argues that the first four weeks of life represent a period of neural transition that is unmatched in its speed, its vulnerability, and its significance for everything that follows.
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