Does your Brain grow?

[EggMFC]

Does your brain actually keep growing while you grow up, or has it grown to its full size by the time you are born?

[Loosehead]

It grows with the rest of your body. There are cases when it doesn't so you are left with an adult sized head with a baby sized brain rattling about in it, these generally join New Labour.

[Imp y Celyn]

the weight of the brain of a newborn baby is approximately 300 grams (or around 10% of body weight) in contrast to the adult brain - which weighs approximately 1400 grams (only 2% of body weight). bain weight increases with age and acheives 'adult' weight between six and fourteen years of life. (each of us is unique and therefore possess differing patterns of growth of development). we are born with our full compliment of neurons. we are born with around 100 billion neurons, and the development of the brain continues long after birth, with dendrites of some neurons in the neocortex continuing to grow well into old age.

[wildwood]

A baby's brain is smooth and small. As the baby grows, the familiar walnut-like convolutions develop and reach their maximum at the age of about two. It then grows in size in unison with the head.

The brain continues to develop new connections right throughout our lives and, although it can not regenerate, other parts of the brain can take over the task of damaged parts. We know this from stroke victims *** **-learn to speak, walk etc.

[doglady]

One way they tell whether pre-historic people had childhoods was to look at the size of their heads compared to their pelvis. If their heads were bigger than their pelvises, they must have been born with a smaller head, therefore a smaller brain which had more developing to do.

If you see what I mean!!