Child development Flashcards
What is grey matter association cortices?
- function less predictable
- not organised topographically
- left-right symmetry weak or absent
What areas of the brain are involved in sensory information from skin, muscoskeletal system, viscera and taste buds?
- Primary somatic sensory cortex
- Parietal lobe
- Sensory association area
What are of the brain is involved in vision?
- Visual association area
- Occipital lobe
- Visual cortex
What part of the brain is involved in hearing?
- Auditory association area
2. Auditory cortex
What brain cortex is involved in taste?
gustatory cortex
What brain cortex is involved in smell?
olfactory
What does the pre-frontal association area involved in the brain?
coordinate information from other association areas, controls some behaviours
What are the pyramidal tracts?
- Lateral corticospinal tracts
2. Anterior corticospinal tracrs
What are extrapyramidal tracts?
- Rubrospinal tract
- Reticulospinal tract
- Vestibulospinal tract
- Olivospinal tract
What is the function of vestibulospinal tract and olivospinal tract?
- Regulates posture to maintain balance
- Facilitate mainly a motoneurons of the postural
- Anti-gravity (extensor) muscles
What is the function of reticulospinal tract?
coordinate automated movements of locomotion and posture (e.g. to painful stimuli)
What is the function of the rubrospinal tract?
automatic movements of arm in response to posture/balance changes
What are the pyramidal tracts?
control voluntary movements
What are the components of a reflex arc?
- Sensory receptor: responds to a stimulus by producing a generator or receptor potential
- Sensory neuron: axon conducts impulses from receptor to integrating center
- Integrating center: one or more regions within the CNS that relay impusles from sensory to motor neurons
- Motor neuron: axon conducts impulses from integrating center to effector
- Effector: muscle or gland that responds to motor nerve impulses
What is development?
global impression of a child encompassing; growth, increase in understanding, acquisition of new skills and more sophisticated response and behaviour
Why is development important?
Endows child with increasingly complex skills in order to function in society
Who affects development?
- Parents
- All doctors
- Nursery nurses
- Teachers
When is development?
- Opportunistically
- Planned as part of programme of reviews
What are the four things in a developmental assessment?
- Speech and language skills
- Social skills
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
What is involved gross motor skills?
- Position
- Head lag
- Sitting
- Walking
- Running
What is involved in fine motor skills?
- Use of hands
- Grasp and fine pincer
- Bricks
- Crayon
- Puzzles
What is involved in social skills?
- Social interaction
- Stranger reaction
- Eating skills
- Dressing
What is involved speech and language skills?
- Vocalization
- Words
- Understanding
- Imaginative play
What is the gross motor development of newborn?
- Limited flexed symmetrical posture
2. Marked head lag on pulling up