Page 5 - The First 1,000 Days and Beyond
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Life Education
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Early Brain & Child Development (EBCD)
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Human Brain Development:
Brains are built over time, from the bottom up
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Interactive influences of Genes and Experience
shape the developing brain
Serve and Return Interaction shapes Brain Circuitry
SERVE
Genes: Reaching out for interactions
Determine Timing of circuits
RETURN
Adults respond
Experience: “SERVE and RETURN”
Relationship between children and
parents
Absence of such responses – brain
architecture does not form as expected;
learning and behaviour problems
