It is linked to the development of brain regions that allow "executive functioning" and use higher order thinking and reasoning.

这活动与大脑发育有关。智力健全大脑有良好“管理功能”，能考虑重要性次序并进行逻辑推理。

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A lack of oxygen may inhibit brain development in the unborn child.

缺氧可能阻碍胎儿的大脑发育。

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Some of the potential benefits relate directly to the healthy development of the brain and nervous system.

一些潜在的好处直接关系到大脑神经系统的健康发展。

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At the University of California at Davis, Dr.Isaac Pessah is researching the impact of the environment on brain development and autism.

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It's like the part of the brain that's responsible for language learning is only around early in development and if you don't get your language by then it'll just run out.

就好像负责语言学习的大脑区域,只是在发展的早期比较活跃,如果你没有在这个时候获得语言,那你就没有机会了

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"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.

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This suggests that there is a critical period in the development of the brain when the bacteria are influential.

FORBES: Thinking With Your Gut. Literally.

But this new study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of gut bacteria on the biochemistry and development of the brain.

FORBES: Thinking With Your Gut. Literally.