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Why love matters : how affection shapes a baby's brain
- Title
- Why love matters : how affection shapes a baby's brain / Sue Gerhardt.
- Author
- Gerhardt, Sue, 1953-
- Publication
- Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.
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- Description
- ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Brain > growth & development
- Mental Disorders > prevention & control
- Personality Development > Infant
- Infants > Development
- Hydrocortisone > biosynthesis
- Brain Chemistry > Infant
- Infant psychology
- Brain chemistry
- Emotions > physiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Mental Disorders > chemically induced
- Parent and child
- Brain > Growth
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-242) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1583918167 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1583918175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003026871
- OCLC
- ocm53937761
- SCSB-5159883
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries