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Why Love Matters How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

Paperback • 2004 • English • 1. edition

Why Love Matters How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

By Sue Gerhardt

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About the book

Why Love Matters 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. She shows how the develop...Show more

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ISBN

9781583918173

Publisher

Brunner-Routledge

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Why Love Matters How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

Format

Paperback

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