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Brain Building Answers

1. Brains start developing before birth and are not fully

developed until a person’s mid twenties.

2. Our early experiences create the foundations of brain architecture on

which later circuitry is built.

3. Our brains is made up of lots of cells called neurons.

4. Whenever we think, do or say anything, neurons pass information to

each other through an electrical signal.

5. Electrical signals sent between neurons creates a circuit. Every time

we repeat something, a coating around the trunk of the neuron (the

axon) gets thicker and the branches of the neuron (dendrites) get

bushier. Scientists think that this helps speed up the electrical

signals between neurons.

6. The quicker the message travels, the easier it is to do that thing.

7. Scientists have found that new brain circuitry can be built at any age.