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What could we only initially study? |
corpses |
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Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) |
is the speed with which electrical impulses are transmitted along nerve fibers and across synapses |
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What is the wrinkling of the brain called? |
The cortex |
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Children's brain |
Thin cortex to thicker cortex |
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Synaptic pruning |
Brain is thin, thick, then thin again. "Fire together, wire together" Ex: FB friends who pop up on your newsfeed have greater interactions |
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More Intelligent |
Delay when their cortices began to grow thinner |
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Less Intelligent |
Happens earlier in life |
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Intellectual Disability |
individuals who display general intellectual functioning that is well below average and, at the same time, poor adaptive behavior. |
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IQ "cutoff" |
70 or below |
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Down Syndrome |
an inherited disorder, usually caused by the presence of extra chromosomal material on the 21st chromosome, that results in intellectual disability (.1% of population) |
