Life Span Modifications in Structure & Function of the Brain: Some Salient Findings
Errol Leifer, Ph.D. ABPP
Changes in human behavior from birth to aged end of life have been attributed to phenomena of learning, education, nutrition, maturation, culture and biology of gender. Measurement of test performance as a function of age has been steadily documented as a general finding of decline in speed sensitive tasks. For twenty five years or so, Interpersonal Neurobiology, through its methodology of consilience, has been rapidly expanding our understanding of the underlying brain processes and alterations occurring across the life span that are the neurobiological substrates of observed behavioral manifestations. The story is much more interesting than the long observed decline in speed sensitive performances.
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