During development, structural, functional, and behavioral changes {maturation}| can be due only to physiological growth. Maturational processes include cell induction.
directions
Muscle maturation and control start close to trunk and progress toward limbs. Maturation goes from head to tail {cephalocaudal sequence, maturation}.
enrichment
Enriched environments featuring interactions, not just passive stimulation, can transiently raise brain protein, RNA, and hexokinase levels but not gene-expression amounts. Enriched environments can increase dendritic branching and synapse number but not cell volume [Carey, 1987] [Shatz, 1992].
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