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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain »
Authors: Sue Gerhardt
ISBN-13: 9781583918173, ISBN-10: 1583918175
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sue Gerhardt
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Back to the beginning | 13 |
| 2 | Building a brain | 32 |
| 3 | Corrosive cortisol | 56 |
| 4 | Trying not to feel | 93 |
| 5 | Melancholy baby | 112 |
| 6 | Active harm | 133 |
| 7 | Torment | 149 |
| 8 | Original sin | 167 |
| 9 | 'If all else fails, hug your teddybear' | 195 |
| 10 | Birth of the future | 207 |
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