Experience-based brain development: Scientific underpinnings of the importance of early child development in a global world

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Experience-based brain and biological development in the early years differentiates neuron functions and establishes major neurological pathways. This can set trajectories that affect the competence, health and well-being of individuals throughout life. We now better understand how the social environment in early life gets under the skin to affect brain development. This knowledge has implications for medicine,...

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