The study was conducted as an experiment because of the different effects twitches have on an infant’s brain through the experimentation done on rats. The chapter and article relate because of how the brain develops from the twitch movements that are done during sleep. Researchers found through this study that twitches during sleep help an infant’s brain to develop better than movements when they are awake. The study was …show more content…
The article and book relate on how puberty in adolescents can modify the characteristics of the body, not just by appearance but also in the brain. The study found that androstadienone, a steroid produced by men at puberty, can affect the body in different ways. This pheromone produced during puberty seems to target the hypothalamus in different ways according to the gender of adolescent, affecting how the child acts. The study found that androstadienone affects the hypothalamus of children with and without gender dysphoria. Adolescents with gender dysphoria, born as one gender but behaves as the other, are more strongly affected by this pheromone than a normal heterosexual