Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby's brain

By S. Gerhardt. 2006

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Subfields: Pharmacy, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Brain science and early years policy: Hopeful ethos or ‘cruel optimism’? (2015, background): “…consequences for intervention; and their perceptions of the benefits, limitations and risks of brain science ideas; and (iii) (iii) semi-structured interviews with 17 early years practitioners in the south east of England: eight working in the Family Nurse Partnership early intervention programme,…”
Do mothers want professional carers to love their babies? (2011, background): “Gerhardt (2004) claims that what babies really need is love, arguing that affection helps babies’ brain development.”
Emotional well-being and its relationship to schools and classrooms: a critical reflection (2008, methodology): “It is work conducted by Schore ( 2003 ), Pansepp ( 1998 ), Gerhardt ( 2004 ) and Wilkinson ( 2006 ).”
School Belonging: The Importance of Student and Teacher Relationships (2021, background): “In contrast, it has now been well established that warm and responsive early connections result in a more optimistic outcome of good psycho-social functioning (Gerhardt, 2015).”
CHAPTER 9 (2019, background): “Gerhardt (2004) is resolute about why children need to be loved in relation to healthy brain development and makes the following point about adult child attachment and regulation.”
The Personal is Professional: Professionalism and the Birth to Threes Practitioner (2006, background): “It is sensitive, responsive interactions between the adult and child that support children developing a positive self-concept (Gerhardt, 2004).”
Nurturing Nature: How Brain Development Is Inherently Social and Emotional, and What This Means for Education (2019, background): “Exposure to these socially triggered hormones opens a window of plasticity in the parent ’ s brain development (Feldman, 2015) and signals the infant ’ s brain to grow (Curley & Champagne, 2016; Gerhardt, 2014; Sethna et al., 2017).”
From born to made: technology, biology and space (2005, background): “This then required a capacity to think and reflect on our emotions, and this led to the development of the cortex, and in particular, the prefrontal cortex’ (Gerhardt 2004, 35) which acts as a kind of control centre from which emotional reactions arising deeper in the brain can be modulated.”
Parenting (2015, background): “With ever more studies stressing the importance of the early (even preconception) environment for infant development (see Gerhardt, 2004), providing children with the “right” kind of environment turns “normal” activities of parenting into a series of reflexive tasks to be achieved.”
Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, background): “Activation and maturation of this system are especially important in the first years of life, where a parent acts as a reassuring and soothing agent (Gerhardt, 2004).”