Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A) The number of glial cells increases rapidly throughout the first 2 years of life.
B) The number of neurons increases rapidly throughout the first 2 years of life.
C) During the brain growth spurt in infancy, the complexity of neural branching increases.
D) During the brain growth spurt in infancy, unused connections are often pruned away.

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Most of the neurons an individual will have throughout a person's lifetime developed during the prenatal stage of development. Neural development after birth is characterized not by an increase in the number of neurons, but rather by increases in the size of neurons and particularly an increase in the complexity of their interconnections. Glial cells are added during the first 2 years after birth, however.

Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE