Infant's Brain Development: A Case Study

This study is a correlation because it describes how the mother’s “TLC” can affect the development of an infant’s brain. The article relates to the chapter in how an infant’s brain needs to be nurtured for proper brain development to be able to cope with physical and mental pain. The point of the study was to determine how the infant’s brain reacts to pain with the mother being present or not present. This study was determined by analyzing the gene activity of infants. A mother’s “TLC” can affect the early development of infant’s brain by observing the actions of genes inside the brain. The research provided by this article shows how a nurtured infant brain has better potential for dealing with problems and pain in future life.
The study was conducted as an experiment because of the different effects twitches have on an infant’s brain through the experimentation done on rats. The chapter and article relate because of how the brain develops from the twitch movements that are done during sleep. Researchers found through this study that twitches during sleep help an infant’s brain to develop better than movements when they are awake. The study was …show more content…
The article and book relate on how puberty in adolescents can modify the characteristics of the body, not just by appearance but also in the brain. The study found that androstadienone, a steroid produced by men at puberty, can affect the body in different ways. This pheromone produced during puberty seems to target the hypothalamus in different ways according to the gender of adolescent, affecting how the child acts. The study found that androstadienone affects the hypothalamus of children with and without gender dysphoria. Adolescents with gender dysphoria, born as one gender but behaves as the other, are more strongly affected by this pheromone than a normal heterosexual