不好意思!相关的说明忘记标上: Time-Lapse Imaging Tracks Brain Maturation Ages 5 to 20. Constructed from MRI scans of healthy children, these time-lapse "movies" compress 15 years of brain development (ages 5-20) into just a few seconds. Red indicates more gray matter, blue less gray matter. Gray matter wanes in a back to front wave as the brain matures and neural connections are pruned. Areas perrforming more basic functions mature earlier; areas for higher-order functions (emotion, self-control) mature later. The pre-frontal cortex, which handles reasoning and other "executive" functions, emerged late in evolution, and is among the last to mature. The brain changes in schizophrenia may be an exaggeration of this developmental pattern. Intriguingly, this sequence of brain changes is reversed in Alzheimer's disease. [此帖子已被 chile_liu 在 2005-10-29 7:14:54 编辑过] |