A mother’s loving care apparently goes well beyond providing comfort. A new study suggests that children whose moms nurtured them early in life have a more highly developed section of the brain vital to learning, memory, and handling stress. “I think the public health implications suggest that we should pay more attention to parents’ nurturing,” says lead author Joan L. Luby, MD, “and we should do what we can as a society to foster these skills because clearly nurturing has a very, very big impact on later development.”
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