Search Results - subject:"brain development"

Coelho, Philip R.; McClure, James E. - In: Journal of bioeconomics 18 (2016) 1, pp. 65-78

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Excessive stress disrupts the development of brain architecture

Barlow, Jane; Scientific Council, National - In: Journal of Children’s Services 9 (2014) 2, pp. 143-153

Purpose – Drawing on the scientific literature, the purpose of this paper is to elucidate the harmful effects of toxic stress on the developing brain. It explains how severe, chronic adversity during development, in the absence of responsive caregiving, can impair brain architecture. It also...

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Early Social-Emotional and Cognitive Basis for Human Development Potential, and Improved Quality of Life

Greenspan, Stanley; Breinbauer, Cecilia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This presentation discusses the effects of social motivation on brain development in early childhood and the role of …

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Early Social-Emotional and Cognitive Basis for Human Development Potential, and Improved Quality of Life

Greenspan, Stanley; Breinbauer, Cecilia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This presentation discusses the effects of social motivation on brain development in early childhood and the role of …

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Early Childhood Intervention. Rationale, Timing and Efficacy

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Tremblay, … - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

This paper provides a brief review of the economic rationale for investing in early childhood. It discusses the optimal timing of intervention, with reference to recent work in developmental neuroscience, and asks how early is early? It motivates the need for early intervention by providing an...

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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James Joseph; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006

A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...

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Media representations of early human development: Protecting, feeding and loving the developing brain

O'Connor, Cliodhna; Joffe, Helene - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 297-306

representations theory to explore how early brain development was represented in the UK print media in the first decade of the 21st … brain development. Media coverage centred around concern with ‘protecting’ the prenatal brain (identifying threats to foetal … neurodevelopment), ‘feeding’ the infant brain (indicating the patterns of nutrition that enhance brain development) and ‘loving’ the …

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Cognitive/affective processes, social interaction, and social structure as representational re-descriptions: their contrastive bandwidths and spatio-temporal foci

Cicourel, Aaron - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 5 (2006) 1, pp. 39-70

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Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James J.; Cameron, Judy L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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