growth spurt

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The male adolescent growthspurt in lean body mass is paralleled by a similar growthspurt in left ventricular volume.
First, there is evidence from animal studies that severe malnutrition during the brain growthspurt results in deficits and distortions in the adult brain.
These claims received further support from a re-test of the second group that was administered after they showed a vocabulary growthspurt.
However, both diameter and height growth slowed considerably after this initial growthspurt.
The brain growthspurt spans from the end of prenatal life through the end of infancy, a time period when the right hemisphere is rapidly expanding.
This advance occurs around the same time as we see the vocabulary growthspurt, and panel 5 illustrates typical utterances found in the speech of children nearing their second birthday.
There is evidence that the brain growthspurt in the human starts in the last 3 months of pregnancy and lasts till the end of the second year.
Nor is it known whether a modest degree of continuing impairment of growth during childhood will be magnified by a delayed or incomplete growthspurt after onset of puberty.
Permanent neurological deficits can result from an insult to the brain during the growthspurt.
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