by Evan Dwan | Jul 11, 2021 | News |
In order to survive we need efficient ways to process information. The stress response system is one of the ways we process information. The stress response system is a result of evolution and enabled us to survive and thrive. Each stress response system is highly...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 11, 2021 | News |
Childhood adversity ‘gets under the skin’ As Nadine Burke-Harris puts it, as our biography becomes our biology. Early adversity alters a child’s developmental trajectory, triggering chronic inflammation and hormonal changes that can last a lifetime. It can alter how...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 29, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore writes that psychobiological attunement is thought to be mechanism that facilitates the formation of the attachment bond. The infant attaches to the caregiver who enables the infant to enter states of positive affect, while reducing states of negative...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 27, 2021 | News |
In the first year of life visual experiences play a key role in social and emotional development. The infant’s gaze evokes the mother’s gaze, forming a dyadic system of mutual influence. Mutual gaze interactions are intense interpersonal communications in which the...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 27, 2021 | News |
Self-regulation is an essential organising principle in the development of living systems. It might even be the mechanism by which systems develop. Development occurs in a progression of stages in which adaptive self-regulatory structures and functions emerge that...
