brain development

collocation in English

meaningsofbrainanddevelopment

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withbrain.
brain
noun
uk
/breɪn/
us
/breɪn/
the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, ...
See more atbrain
development
noun
uk
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
us
/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
See more atdevelopment

(Definition ofbrainanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrain development

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Does the rodent version have anything to do with mousebraindevelopment?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Factors that are important for cell proliferation, cell patterning and neurogenesis duringbraindevelopmentplay a role also in the adult neurogenic niches.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The matching properties help to stabilizebraindevelopmentand learning.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This means incorporating developing motor control constraints andbraindevelopmentconstraints within the model.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many of our mental abilities are largely attributable to extension ofbraindevelopmentto produce a proportionately scaled-up version of the ancestral ape brain.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The abnormal trajectory forbraindevelopmentin autism is not caused by a simple lack of exposure to face and language.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These neurobiological models are largely based on animal studies of the effects of early life adversity on stress neurobiology andbraindevelopment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The mechanism responsible for these behavioral changes may lie inbraindevelopmentchanges that occur as a result of prenatal stress.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In order to examine earlybraindevelopmentin autism, children need to be studied at as young an age as possible.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One of the prime goals of this project is to examine the effects of early deprivation onbraindevelopment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Clinical populations offer one means of studying the effects of variations in experience onbraindevelopment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In conclusion, experiments of nature that disrupt prenatalbraindevelopmentprovide opportunities to learn about the vulnerability and adaptive plasticity of the developing brain.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is likely that vulnerability to schizophrenia is caused by an interaction of multiple genetic and environmental factors affecting earlybraindevelopment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Genetic and environmental early insults tobraindevelopmentare etiological determinants of the disorder.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Structural and functionalbraindevelopmentand its relation to cognitive development.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A third complexity derives from the course ofbraindevelopment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Clearly the results do not prove thatbraindevelopmentand behavioral development operate just as the simulation does.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Experience effects onbraindevelopment: possible contributions to psychopathology.
From theCambridge English Corpus
From a molecular standpoint, successful neuronal migration duringbraindevelopmentis contingent upon the orchestrated expression of a series of trophic factors and guidance molecules.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Growing evidence indicates that abnormalities inbraindevelopmentplay determining roles in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofbrain
Go to the definition ofdevelopment
See other collocations withbrain