Company:Research Network on Early Experience & Brain Development

Strives to be inter- and multi-disciplinary by drawing on experts from developmental psychology, developmental neurobiology, and developmental/behavioral pediatrics.

Network Researchers and Consultants Only OVERVIEW The Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development was founded in to address questions of how the experiences of early childhood are incorporated into the structures of the developing brain and how in turn those changes in the structures of the brain influence behavior The network explores how knowledge of brain development can guide us in our understanding of behavioral development and vice versa It focuses specifically on sensitive periods and neural plasticity the reciprocal phenomena whereby a the brain is negatively affected if certain experiences fail to occur within a certain time period and b the brain is altered by experience at virtually any point in the life span Here we consider not only how the structure of experience is incorporated into the structure of the brain but also how this knowledge can influence the decisions we make about intervening in the

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• http://www.macbrain.org/