Girls have been shown to have
earlier brain maturation, eye contact, and joint attention, which may in turn influence greater maternal responsiveness.12, 25,26 A significant gap in language input from fathers may have long - term implications.
Not exact matches
And this can become tricky with premature babies, because the
earlier your baby is born, the more adjustments you need to make in terms of
brain maturation.
«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during
early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in
brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.
Uhlhaas and colleagues summarize decades of work to hypothesize that «in ASDs abnormal
brain maturation during
early prenatal and postnatal periods results in cortical circuits that are unable to support the expression of high - frequency oscillations during infancy.
Early parental care is important for hippocampal
maturation: Evidence from
brain morphology in humans
Psychoanalytic theory and
brain maturation: the most detailed discussion of the
early years and the emotional consequences of
brain development is Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of Self.
Unfortunately, while fear - learning generally happens
early in life, with emotional memories that are powerful and persistent, unlearning fears depends upon
brain maturation that happens only later, and requires active work and evidence - based treatment.