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Children are born immediately knowing how to breathe and they quickly learn to observe the adults around themInfants go through an astounding amount of growth and development in the first few years of life which can be stimulated through the help of adults in the infants lifeHuman development can be both physical and psychological An Infants physical development may encompass the nervous system as and other body systems that aids in motor skills The nervous system relates to the formation of neurons and brain activity in comparison to other body systems which focus more on physical growth of the bones muscles heart and lungs Many texts such as Boyd Johnson and Bee 2009 have explained the Brain and nervous system as the building blocks of human functions The brain serves as a control center and the nervous system acts as a communication to other parts of the body The cortex which is the most underdeveloped part of the brain at birth starts to develop resulting in the brain to weigh four times greater than that at birth by the age of one The cortex is the part of the brain responsible for body movement perception language and thinking Boyd Johnson and Bee 2009 pp97 A reason to the increase in the mass of the cortex is due to synaptic development Boyd Et la2009 defines Synaptic development as the growth of both dendrites and axons Pp 95According to the Reeze Et la 2009 a dendrite origins from the word tree and is a branched extension of the neuron that receives signals from other neurons Similarly the Axon is the extension of the neuron that carries the impulses away from the neuron body pp 11073 Boyde et la 2009 explains that during Synaptogenesis growth happens in spurts allowing neurons to have a plethora of connections pp 95Two texts Boyde et la 2009 Reeze Et la 2009 goes on to explain that this process of sporadic growth is
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