by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
The ‘hidden epidemic’ of early adversity and toxic stress in society today means that a huge proportion of children and adults are chronically dysregulated leading to a vast array of health problems. How do we deal with a problem of this magnitude? Stress regulation...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
The key developmental tasks of childhood are learning to relate (communicate) and regulate. These are also two sides of the same coin – healthy relationships are one of the main resources for regulation that humans have evolved to draw on. This is particularly...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 17, 2021 | News |
Bruce Perry writes that our body uses neural networks to manage and process stress. Stress is a demand on one or more of our body’s physiological systems. Hunger, thirst, cold, exercise and even getting excited are all stressors. Stress is central to learning,...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 11, 2021 | News |
It is an irony that most of our learning is done before we even go to school. The brain is developing at an accelerated rate for the first two years of life and what is learned here sets the stage for everything that is to come. Development is ‘front-loaded’ to enable...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 11, 2021 | News |
The architecture of the brain is built early in life and continues into adulthood. Simple circuits in the brain are built first, with more complex ones developing on top of them later on. Genes provide the basic blueprint for brain development but experience...
