“And so, in those first weeks and months, if a child is hungry and is fed and if a child is stressed and is comforted, the brain wires itself in one direction. But if he or she is hungry and not fed and stressed and not comforted, the brain literally wires itself differently and you are able to tell the difference in the brain wiring at 100 days. That 100-day period is extremely predictive of where kids are going to be at 3 and 5 years. Parents need to know this. A lot of people are looking at the differences in children based on economic status, but it's a biological, behavioral process. So, the poor kids who have someone feeding them and interacting with them do well, and the well-to-do kids who don't have this care do badly. But the pattern shows that wealthier families interact differently with their kids. One reason is that the average working mother reads to” http://www.hhnmag.com/articles/8285-early-childhood-developments-role-in-preventing-violence-chronic-disease-in-adulthood
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“Our experience of the world is shaped by our physical and social reality, and the relationship between the two is more cyclical than most people likely realize. “This vicious cycle is not some liberal bullshit,” she continues. “The neuroscience is crystal clear: brains wire themselves to their surroundings. A developing infant brain requires wiring instructions from the world around it. Without proper nourishment, both nutritional and social, that little brain will not develop to its fullest.””
“reatment that uses direct touch can have a depth and potency that can have a great therapeutic impact, which provides some explanation for why so many people are seeking out their own "professional touchers" or are filling the waiting rooms of physicians, waiting for the doctor to find the cause of the pain and make them better. In the process, they are touched. When the patient is assured that the work of the professional toucher is free from infringement, that sexual contact is clearly out of bounds, and that the patient can say "no" to any intervention the body-work practioner proposes, then the patient can have the experience of trust and physical touch in the context of a controlled respectful relationship.”