Why love matters [electronic book] : how affection shapes a baby's brain / Sue Gerhardt.
By: Gerhardt, Sue [author.]
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BookPublisher: East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Second edition.Description: online resource (xiv, 303 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780415870535 (paperback); 9780415870528 (hardback); 9781000031348 (e-book).Subject(s): Infants -- Development | Intimacy (Psychology) | Brain chemistry | Developmental neurobiology | Brain -- Growth | Parent and childDDC classification: 155.422 Online resources: Access eBook | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | |
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| eBook | MTU Online eBook | 155.422 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MTU Cork Module COUN9004 - Supplementary reading. MTU Cork Module COUN6009 - Core reading, MTU Cork Module COUN8001 - Core reading, MTU Cork Module PSYC8011 - Core reading |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent findings in genetics and the mind/body connection, and including a new chapter highlighting our growing understanding of the part also played by pregnancy in shaping a baby's future emotional and physical well-being.
The author focuses in particular on the wide-ranging effects of early stress on a baby or toddler's developing nervous system. When things go wrong with relationships in early life, the dependent child has to adapt; what we now know is that his or her brain adapts too. The brain's emotion and immune systems are particularly affected by early stress and can become less effective. This makes the child more vulnerable to a range of later difficulties such as depression, anti-social behaviour, addictions or anorexia, as well as physical illness.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-297) and index.
Before we meet them -- Back to the beginning -- Building a brain -- Corrosive cortisol -- Trying not to feel -- Melancholy baby -- Active harm -- Torment -- Original sin -- 'If all else fails, hug your teddybear' -- Birth of the future.
MTU CORK Module COUN 6009 - Core reading.
MTU CORK Module COUN 8001 - Core reading.
MTU CORK Module PSYC 8011 - Core reading.
MTU CORK Module COUN 9004 - Supplementary reading.
Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Introduction to the second edition (p. 1)
- Part 1 The foundations: babies and their brains (p. 13)
- 1 Before we meet them (p. 15)
- 2 Back to the beginning (p. 28)
- 3 Building a brain (p. 48)
- 4 Corrosive Cortisol (p. 74)
- Conclusion to Part 1 (p. 104)
- Part 2 Shaky foundations and their consequences (p. 107)
- 5 Trying not to feel: the links between early emotional regulation and the immune system (p. 113)
- 6 Melancholy baby: how early experience can alter brain chemistry, leading to adult depression (p. 134)
- 7 Active harm: the links between trauma in babyhood and trauma in adult life (p. 157)
- 8 Torment: the links between personality disorders and early experience (p. 174)
- 9 Original sin: how babies who are treated harshly may not develop empathy for others (p. 193)
- Part 3 Too much information, not enough solutions: where do we go from here? (p. 219)
- 10 'If all else fails, hug your teddybear': repairing the damage (p. 221)
- 11 Birth of the future (p. 238)
- Bibliography (p. 251)
- Index (p. 298)