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NewsLink: Development of the Brain

This assignment will help you make connections between the science of biopsychology and your daily life, and keep you apprised of the latest developments in the field. You will search BioPsychology NewsLink ( 3e.mindsmachine.com/news) for a media article related to the Development of the Brain chapter. You can search by keyword using the chapter's key terms in the list below, or click on the links by chapter. You can also enter one of the keywords on Google (news tab). Once you find a layperson article you're interested in, complete your journal entry by answering the six assignment questions.

Assignment

The journal is not a paper! Aim for one sentence per prompt. Work offline in a word processing program, but cut and paste your answers into the text box. Kindly do not attach a document. 

1. What keyword did you search?

2. What is the article about?

3. How was the research conducted?

4. What results caught your eye?

5. What conclusions can you draw?

6. What is the link to your article?

Key Terms

adult neurogenesis

Alzheimer’s disease

amblyopia

amyloid plaque

beta-amyloid

binocular deprivation

cell death

cell differentiation

cell migration

cell-cell interaction

clones

dementia

ectoderm

embryo

epigenetics

fetus

forebrain

fragile X syndrome

gene expression

genotype

Hebbian synapse

hindbrain

intellectual disability

methylation

midbrain

mitosis

monocular deprivation

neural tube

neurofibrillary tangle

neurogenesis

neurotrophic factor

ocular dominance histogram

phenotype

phenylketonuria

sensitive period

stem cell

synapse rearrangement

synaptogenesis

ventricular zone