The Importance Of Neuroscience

Introduction

What is Neuroscience?

Neuroscience is the science of the brain and body and how they interact and influence each other. Neuroscience provides evidence that early experiences impact on brain development can have a long-term effect on wellbeing. The first 3 years are the period of the most rapid growth during which they are specific sensitive periods for best learning in particular areas. By the time a child is three years old, 90% of their brain has been developed and the quality of relationships and learning environments are so important for babies and toddlers.

How Children learn, Linda Pound

A fully developed foetus has its full addition of about 100 billion neurons and the first connections between neurons are already formed. After birth the process with the brain quadrupling in volume by adulthood. When the brain is relatively immature it is particularly vulnerable to the adverse environmental impacts on its developing architecture and functions, with resulting impairments with lifelong effects on their physical and mental health. Neuroscience suggests that the contribution a healthy pregnancy makes to brain development is as great as interactions a parent and child have in early childhood.

A scientist of 50 years ago investigating the brain’s functioning would have raised an eyebrow if someone had asked him or her what the field of Cognitive Neuroscience entailed simply because the field didn’t yet exist. During the 1960s, the new field of Cognitive Psychology developed methods for analysing behavioural cognitive relationships. Combining cellular neurobiological of Cognitive Neuroscience. It is a field that connects cognitive behavioural outcomes with underlying neural