Children’s Emotional Development Is Built into the Architecture of Their Brains

Center on the Developing Child Harvard University

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A working paper from Harvard's Center on the Developing Child explaining how early relationships shape the architecture of a child's developing brain and lay the foundation for later emotional regulation.

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