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The Neuroscience of the Growing Brain

That Neuroscience Guy

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Prediction Errors in the Brain as Young Infants

i'm gong to spend a little bit of extra time on the teenage brain because, well, it's near and dear to my heart, being the parent of a teen ager. Think about the brain growing from inside to out. So that neural tube that starts it three weeks is effectively the start of the brain stem. And so it grows from this basic structure in on the inside of the brain,. It grows outwards, and it also grows from back to front. But like i said earlier, the last thing to develop is the pre frontal cor now what does that mean? Well, basically, this is why tenaters do dumb things.

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