Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
by Sue Gerhardt
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages256 pages
ISBN
9781583918173
Published
2003
Description
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 t...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. Sue Gerhardt 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.