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...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The future of every society depends on the healthy development of the next generation. This process can be thrown off kilter by excessive or prolonged activation of the stress response. Toxic stress can have a negative impact on learning, behaviour and health...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
Robert Sapolsky writes that childhood is a time when we make assessments about the nature of the world – assessments that we often keep forever. At the end of WW2 ‘The Dutch hunger winter’ occurred. AS the Nazi’s retreated they cut off all food supplies and for a...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The psychiatrist Bruce Perry describes regulation as about being in balance. Stress is what occurs when a challenge takes us out of balance. We become dysregulated where we experience distress and discomfort. Finding balance again – becoming regulated – is rewarding...
