Please answer the following questions backing up your responses with examples from your book and/or other outside sources.

1. What can we learn about the brain during brain surgery?
2. Why do you think that babies are born with more neurons than they need in the brain?
3. Would you live your life differently if you knew that you were going to get some kind of neurological problem 20 years from now?
4. How are stress, the sympathetic nervous system response, and health related? Why is stress bad for our health in light of what you know about the sympathetic nervous system and its function?

Then, please choose a particular stage of development you found most interesting and explain what exactly happens during that stage. Did anything surprise you about this stage? Any misconceptions about the stage or things that you thought might not necessarily happen during this stage? Feel free to incorporate personal examples from your own experience if applicable/you are comfortable with that. Please support your response with references, either your book and/or outside sources, but cite whatever you may quote, direct or indirect!