Why love matters: how affection shapes a baby's brain
This book explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. The author considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. (Midwest).
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- Full title :Why love matters : how affection shapes a baby's brain / Sue Gerhardt.
Summary
This book explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. The author considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. (Midwest).
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- Publication Date:2004.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brunner-Routledge
- Place of Publication:Hove, East Sussex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 246 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1583918175, 9781583918173, 1583918167, 9781583918166
- oclc:ocn300238143
- LC Classification:RJ134
- Dewey Decimal:155.42/2
Table of Contents
The foundations : babies and their brains. Back to the beginning -- Building a brain -- Corrosive cortisol -- Shaky foundations and their consequences. Trying not to feel -- Melancholy baby -- Active harm -- Torment -- Original sin -- Too much information, not enough solutions."If all else fails, hug your teddy bear" -- Birth of the future.
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