Purpose:

To learn about how the nervous system adapts, changes, and responds to the environment, including the social and physical worlds.
Describe the major Brain Regions and the functions that they perform
Identify and explain the functions of the main parts of a neuron, and of the major brain structures

DIRECTIONS:

1) Tiffany Field who explains ho massage and human touch helped premature infants thrive
2) Saul Schanberg who conducted research with touch-deprived rats demonstrates the importance of maternal connection and that maternal deprivation stunts growth
3) Rats raised in stimulating environments had thicker neuronal structuring of their cortext-enrichment causes the brain to change and develop very differently than in an impoverished environment.
4) Michael Meanyey investigates how stress in the brain changes the hippocampus, the part of the brain that regulates stress and plays a key role in learning and memory.