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Question | Answer |
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rubella during pregnancy-example of adverse effect gain access; | during sensitive periods in develpoment of brain or organ systems; first 12 week pregnancy 85% infants develop congenital rubella syndrome(deafness, eye problems, heart malformations); between 13-16 weeks, 54% develop CRS |
neural proliferation | brain architecture begins at birth; 700 new synapes or connection every second for first few years of life timing is genetic but experiences affect whether the circuits are strong or weak |
2nd way adverse events gain access to body | recurring experiences such as abuse, neglect, etc; chronic activation of body's stress response |
example of neural proliferation | baby babble-no response-little language development baby babble-adults respond-contiguent reciprocity-neural connection-good language development |
neurons and toxic stress | neurons have underdeveloped connections |
genes and toxic stress | early experiences alter gene expression and shape development |
toxic stress | unrelieved activation of body's stress management system without protetion of adults nurturing system |