BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN

Brain Development in Children

Brain Development in Children

For many years social science researchers have known that the earliest interactions have a profound effect on the development of children. Emmy Werner (1982) in her longitudinal study in Hawaii found that attachment in the first year of life, among other things, was a precursor to the ability of children and adults to achieve and to cope with the vicissitudes of life. Lyn Murray (1997) in her research in Britain showed that babies in the early months (and even weeks) of life, of mothers who were unable to respond appropriately to them ...