Fertile Minds (Extra Credit)

In the artical Firtile Minds, that J. Madeline Nash wrote, She talks about how when we hear a fetus's brain its a sound like the waves in the ocean or a rat-a-tat-tat. They soon see that these burst of electricity that go through the brain are shaping the brain to recognize the sound of a mother or fathers voice. This process happenes even before birth.
When the baby is born it has trillions of nerons and as the baby gets older it loses nerons that are not uses often or are not related t things they see touch or hear. Studies have shown that babies who don't play much or are rarely touched develop brains 20% to 30% smaller than normal babies their age. She goes along to say that rich experiences really produce rich brains.
In this artical she also talks about how the first year of a babies life and that they need to be touched held and talked to. By the age of three if they have been abused or neglected they will have signs of that their whole life, but a Dr. Harry Chugani says that we may not beable to control what happens before birth but we can effect what happens after. He referse to well planned preschools can help those kids in need.
It goes on to talk about have the older the kid gets the more axons and nerons are fired and they have more energey inside the brain.
in counclusion she says that things need to be taught to the kids while they are young and not wait until they are older becasue they have more nerons fireing and they will learn it better. If we fail to do this she says that we will all suffer in the year 2010.