It has been shown that under-nutrition, particularly protein malnutrition, can lead to irregular brain maturation and learning disabilities.

Neuroplasticity is most clearly seen in the instances of REM sleep deprivation during brain maturation.

Because of the benign course and age-specific occurrence, it is thought to represent a hereditary impairment of brain maturation.

EEG sleep analysis can indicate significant aspects of the timing of brain development, including evaluating adolescent brain maturation.

This has little to do with brain maturation and more do to do with teaching simple morals.

In processing facial expressions the female advantage appears best explained by an integrated account considering both brain maturation and social interaction.

These findings are in rodents, a species with faster brain maturation and a more mature brain at birth than is typical for humans.

Experts recommend that women who are breast-feeding also abstain, because brain maturation continues after birth.

Both linguistic and sensory motor development are then co-ordinated further with the 'brain maturation curve'.

This behavioral improvement is related to brain maturation, especially development of the cerebral cortex.