Your text has a section on brain damage and recovery, which concludes with which of the following generalizations:

a. Brain damage that occurs prenatally can usually be remedied through medication during early childhood.
b. The worst time to suffer brain damage is very early, during prenatal development and the first year after birth.
c. The worst forms of brain damage tend to result from synaptic pruning that occurs over an extended period of development.
d. New brain stimulation methods are dramatically decreasing the rates of negative consequences from early brain injuries.


Ans: b. The worst time to suffer brain damage is very early, during prenatal development and the first year after birth.

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