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(a) What factors account for brain growth after birth?
(b) List some structural brain changes observed with aging

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The solution discusses the factors that account for brain growth after birth and lists some of the brain changes observed with aging.

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(a) What factors account for brain growth after birth?

Generally speaking, the brain grows rapidly after birth during the first few years of life. Growth is due mainly to a number of factors:

-- an increase in the size of the cells already present
-- proliferation and growth of neuroglia
-- ...

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