Why love matters
Subtitle: how affection shapes a baby's brain
By: Sue Gerhardt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Infants -- Development; Infant psychology; Brain chemistry; Developmental neurobiology; Brain -- Growth; Parent and child; Brain -- growth & development -- Infant; Brain Chemistry -- Infant; Emotions -- physiology -- Infant; Hydrocortisone -- biosynthesis -- Infant; Mental Disorders -- chemically induced -- Infant; Mental Disorders -- prevention & control -- Infant; Personality Development -- Infant
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The foundations: babies and their brains. Back to the beginning; title: Building a brain; title: Corrosive cortisol; title: Shaky foundations and their consequences. Trying not to feel; title: Melancholy baby; title: Active harm; title: Torment; title: Original sin; title: Too much information, not enough solutions."If all else fails, hug your teddy bear"; title: Birth of the future.