Emotional And Human Development: The Five Stages Of Prenatal Development

The processes of neural development begin during the prenatal period. But the entire act of neural development is focused into five processes. Three of which are prenatally, the other two are then postnatally. Before the embryo is fully developed and brought into the world, the first three stages of neural development are already finished. Birth defects have a lot to do with any of these three stages not being completed, or a problem in the completion. The five stages of neural development are proliferation, migration, differentiation, myelination, and synaptogenesis. Prenatally, the processes of proliferation, migration, and differentiation are concluded. These processes are completed in this order each and every time, for every healthy human infant. Proliferation is the production of new cells. These cells are stem cells, at this point of prenatal development, they can be any sort of cell. Shortly after, these cells are pre coded for where they are supposed to be, and what type of cell they will develop into. After the cell has time to gather the knowledge of what type of cell it is, it begins to migrate into place. This process is known as migration, and it is the act of the pre coded cells traveling where they are supposed to be. Some of these neurons migrate much faster than others, which may lead to this

The five stages of neural development are proliferation, migration, differentiation, myelination, and synaptogenesis; if any of these stages are incomplete or faulty, it can be disastrous. May birth defects are caused by a problem within the first three stages, but on the other hand, brain deterioration can be a problem in the stage of synaptogenesis. These processes are vital to the survival of the brain and to the organism as a whole, when problems occur in process, problems occur in the organism’s ability to