Considerable Increase in Synaptic Connections Occurs Around the Time Puberty

question 249

Multiple Choice

Considerable increase in synaptic connections occurs around the time puberty begins during a process neuroscientists call ____.

• A) overproduction
• B) pruning
• C) myelination
• D) synaptic expansion

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