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Your baby’s brain isn’t the only one that’s developing. I’ve written a good bit about the brain development of newborns and how to stimulate it. But today I want to talk about the developing brains of parents - which research suggests also change concurrent with pregnancy and childbirth. Changes... in adult brains thought to facilitate sensitive caregiving have been measured in both mothers and fathers. In mothers, distinct changes in the cerebral cortex (including regions linked to thinking about others minds) and subcortex (linked with emotion and motivation) have been measured - so much so that in a study conducted by Spanish researchers, an algorithm was able to readily distinguish between the brains of childless women and those of new mothers. Dads’ brains change too, with fathers demonstrating changes in regions of the cortex that contribute to visual processing, attention, and empathy toward the baby. Both are examples of what neuroscientists call experience dependent neuroplasticity (changes in the structure of the brain associated with specific life experiences). Here’s a lovely example of “Dad Brain” on display. If you can watch it to the end without tearing up you’re doing better than me. Dads will know the feeling. This beautiful video was shared to IG by iamtayloso.show more

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Hasan Merali, MD2 лет назад

Sweet 😊. And what mothers and fathers need is simply more time alone with their babies to further develop these changes. The US is still the only wealthy country without a national policy for guaranteed paid parental leave. Parents and babies NEED this.

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Brattani2 лет назад

When he holds him at the end you can just hear this thoughts “thank you creator”

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dw2 лет назад

I love starting the day with your videos! Thanks.

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Curious2 лет назад

Lovely moment when dad feels the love that is so overwhelming it brings him to tears.

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Shauna Moser2 лет назад

What a tender, sweet man. The world is so full of things that touch our hearts, if we are open to them.

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Simon Davis2 лет назад

Beautiful. Just beautiful. ❤️

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💜MommaGeri2 лет назад

I wish we could see more of men interacting with their kids. So sweets

Фото профиля Sydney Freedberg

Sydney Freedberg2 лет назад

True masculinity unlocked.

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🌜🌸✨Brook Alyson✨🌸🌛2 лет назад

The only logical thing to do was watch this 20 more times, despite the tears, bc it was just so beautiful 😭🥹🥹🥹💖!

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Ksarmygirl672 лет назад

My son caused me a few problems. Bad choices. He has 2 toddlers now. He’s got dad brain now. He’s like you don’t know how much I worry mom. It’s beautiful to see them all grow.

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Your attention please: Is there a mother on the plane? ✈️ 😂 I often write about the brain development of young children. But did you know that babies’ brains aren’t the only ones growing and changing after their arrival? It’s time we talked about “Parent Brain.” A growing body of evidence suggests that the brains of primary caregivers (mothers, fathers and even non-biological parents) undergo change during the transition to parenthood. Just as infancy is a critical developmental window for children, parents’ brains adapt as a result of hormonal activations designed to stimulate caregiving instincts. Did you know, for example, that the sound of a crying baby stimulates activity in the brains of parents in ways that are not experienced by non-parents? Just as babies’ reflexes are designed to optimize their chances at thriving and surviving, so too does biology work to ensure their wellbeing in the brains of their parents. Accompanying these changes is a specialized set of parental knowledge - like how to collapse a double stroller. 😀 Witness as a group of (presumptive) non-parents have a go at folding one up on an airport tarmac. Their lesson of the day: Being a parent is not as easy as it looks. 🎥 lateplaneguy TT

Your attention please: Is there a mother on the plane? ✈️ 😂 I often write about the brain development of young children. But did you know that babies’ brains aren’t the only ones growing and changing after their arrival? It’s time we talked about “Parent Brain.” A growing body of evidence suggests that the brains of primary caregivers (mothers, fathers and even non-biological parents) undergo change during the transition to parenthood. Just as infancy is a critical developmental window for children, parents’ brains adapt as a result of hormonal activations designed to stimulate caregiving instincts. Did you know, for example, that the sound of a crying baby stimulates activity in the brains of parents in ways that are not experienced by non-parents? Just as babies’ reflexes are designed to optimize their chances at thriving and surviving, so too does biology work to ensure their wellbeing in the brains of their parents. Accompanying these changes is a specialized set of parental knowledge - like how to collapse a double stroller. 😀 Witness as a group of (presumptive) non-parents have a go at folding one up on an airport tarmac. Their lesson of the day: Being a parent is not as easy as it looks. 🎥 lateplaneguy TT

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Researchers scanned the brains of 60 preschool-aged children—and what they discovered about screens was “truly shocking.” “Screen time causes a LOSS of white matter in the brain.” In simple terms, Prof. Mike Nagel calls it a measure of “BRAIN DAMAGE.” What is white matter? White matter is the part of the brain made up of insulated nerve fibers that help different areas of the brain communicate quickly and efficiently. It acts like the brain’s wiring system, carrying signals from one region to another so thinking, movement, emotion, and learning can work smoothly. “So if we’re seeing deficits in myelin production early in life, we’re probably seeing deficits in neural connectivity,” Prof. Nagel warns. “The study shows the more screen time a child is exposed to, the greater the loss of white matter.” But it’s not just loss of white matter we have to worry about. When you understand how screens rewire dopamine in developing brains, the story gets even darker. 🧵

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Dads matter. When it comes to child development we are still only beginning to understand the long term impacts of our early experiences. But a growing body of evidence suggests that our experiences during early childhood not only wire the brain for success but also powerfully shape our adult health. And dads play an important role here. One recent study looked at the body’s stress response systems and found that children with involved fathers as infants measured lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol throughout each day some thirty years later. The same researchers found that the quantity of fathers’ involvement also significantly reduced the amount of sons’ illicit drug and tobacco use across the 20s. For these and a whole list of other reasons, dads make a difference. And today we celebrate them. Here’s a video I’ve been saving for Fathers Day from doting first-time dad Liam Chennells. When a friend messaged him to ask about life as a new dad, he created this video in response. As Liam notes in closing, “There’s nothing better.” And that’s true for them both. Here’s wishing a happy Fathers Day to all who hold the title of dad.

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Face-to-face interactions stimulate your newborn’s brain in ways that pave the way for language learning. This according to fascinating new research from Dr. Patricia Kuhl and colleagues at the I-LABS. We’ve long known that serve and return stimulates the infant brain and supports parent/child bonding. But now, through use of magnetoencephalography (a fancy brain scan), Kuhl and colleagues have determined that these early interactions play a role in stimulating specific attention centers in the brain critical to language learning during a sensitive window from 6-12 months. In the study, children with the highest levels of stimulation in these attention centers at 5 months demonstrated superior language learning at five future points, measured up to two years after the initial scans. Fascinating stuff! If you’d like to learn more, check out the great summary by Kristina Compton of Early Learning Nation linked in the first reply below. And if you really want to nerd out, you can read the full study linked in the second reply. This great video example was shared to IG by babies.wonderful.

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"In order to be a man, you have to see a man. That's it." "We got a lot of moms also that have fathers that do want to be dads, but they're so vindictive and bitter with the dad that they'd rather their son fail than to have the father in the child's life." King Randall, I.

Shawn Ryan

127,551 просмотров • 1 год назад

“It was like I’d gotten my mind back.” “This lovely calm kind of came into me and it sort of stayed.” These are real quotes from participants in Iain Campbell, Ph.D.'s newly published study in BJPsych Open looking at ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder that just dropped today! 📃 Read it here: This new study is one of the first to use advanced brain imaging to evaluate the impact ketosis has on bipolar disorder. Combined with blood biomarker data, this study demonstrated that ketosis can lead to favorable brain and metabolite changes which translated to impressive quality of life improvements in the study participants. The participant stories in this video and in the study as a whole are moving and reinforce the urgent need to fight for new treatments for each individual living with bipolar disorder. This new study contributes to the growing body of research supporting the use of ketogenic therapy as a #newbipolartreatment.

“It was like I’d gotten my mind back.” “This lovely calm kind of came into me and it sort of stayed.” These are real quotes from participants in Iain Campbell, Ph.D.'s newly published study in BJPsych Open looking at ketogenic therapy for bipolar disorder that just dropped today! 📃 Read it here: This new study is one of the first to use advanced brain imaging to evaluate the impact ketosis has on bipolar disorder. Combined with blood biomarker data, this study demonstrated that ketosis can lead to favorable brain and metabolite changes which translated to impressive quality of life improvements in the study participants. The participant stories in this video and in the study as a whole are moving and reinforce the urgent need to fight for new treatments for each individual living with bipolar disorder. This new study contributes to the growing body of research supporting the use of ketogenic therapy as a #newbipolartreatment.

Metabolic Mind

21,800 просмотров • 1 год назад

Your baby is born already knowing the sound of your voice and those of close family members. As their hearing develops, babies become acquainted with all kinds of sounds in the womb - from their mother’s heartbeat and digestive rumblings to the muffled (but distinct) sound of her voice. Beginning around the 23rd week of gestation, they also begin taking in sounds from the outside - with research suggesting that newborns can distinguish the sounds and rhythms of their mothers’ native languages and more readily soothe to familiar lullabies to which they were exposed in utero. While fathers and siblings obviously lack the benefit of the internal amplification system associated with mother’s voice - their voices can also become a familiar and comforting sound for baby. It just takes time and exposure. I was so touched by this video of little Jason speaking to his sister in utero. It’s remarkable not only because of the tender way he addresses his unborn sibling, but also because of the compassion he shows for his mother, who is experiencing painful contractions. Jason explains that their mother loves them and even tries to strike a bargain in exchange for her tender handling by the baby. Simply beautiful. Talk to your bump. Read. Sing. It’s not too early. This lovely video was shared to IG by mslamour.

Your baby is born already knowing the sound of your voice and those of close family members. As their hearing develops, babies become acquainted with all kinds of sounds in the womb - from their mother’s heartbeat and digestive rumblings to the muffled (but distinct) sound of her voice. Beginning around the 23rd week of gestation, they also begin taking in sounds from the outside - with research suggesting that newborns can distinguish the sounds and rhythms of their mothers’ native languages and more readily soothe to familiar lullabies to which they were exposed in utero. While fathers and siblings obviously lack the benefit of the internal amplification system associated with mother’s voice - their voices can also become a familiar and comforting sound for baby. It just takes time and exposure. I was so touched by this video of little Jason speaking to his sister in utero. It’s remarkable not only because of the tender way he addresses his unborn sibling, but also because of the compassion he shows for his mother, who is experiencing painful contractions. Jason explains that their mother loves them and even tries to strike a bargain in exchange for her tender handling by the baby. Simply beautiful. Talk to your bump. Read. Sing. It’s not too early. This lovely video was shared to IG by mslamour.

Dan Wuori

110,350 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Why are men’s and women’s brains different? Because they have different sex chromosomes—men have XY, and women have XX. So, that leads to sex hormone differences, which leads to differences not just in the brain but in lots of other areas of the body as well.

Why are men’s and women’s brains different? Because they have different sex chromosomes—men have XY, and women have XX. So, that leads to sex hormone differences, which leads to differences not just in the brain but in lots of other areas of the body as well.

Answers in Genesis

17,630 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Want to see a baby make 60 million neural connections? 🧠 Look no further than this fantastic video. As they bide a little time in the car, our hero and his dad engage in this lovely “serve and return” interaction. And it’s hard to tell which of them is loving it more. If you’re a new parent or grandparent, know that these face-to-face, back-and-forth interactions are one of the very best ways to light up your baby’s developing brain. At birth your baby’s brain is home to up to 100 billion neural (nerve) cells - but depends heavily on early experiences and interactions to help create the connections between them that will go on to undergird language and more sophisticated forms of cognition. During the earliest months of life researchers estimate that these neural connections occur at a rate of one million per second - meaning that 60 million or more occur over the course of this beautiful one minute conversation. Talk, talk, talk to your baby. The payoff will be huge. This loving father and son duo was shared to TT by smileybunch.

Want to see a baby make 60 million neural connections? 🧠 Look no further than this fantastic video. As they bide a little time in the car, our hero and his dad engage in this lovely “serve and return” interaction. And it’s hard to tell which of them is loving it more. If you’re a new parent or grandparent, know that these face-to-face, back-and-forth interactions are one of the very best ways to light up your baby’s developing brain. At birth your baby’s brain is home to up to 100 billion neural (nerve) cells - but depends heavily on early experiences and interactions to help create the connections between them that will go on to undergird language and more sophisticated forms of cognition. During the earliest months of life researchers estimate that these neural connections occur at a rate of one million per second - meaning that 60 million or more occur over the course of this beautiful one minute conversation. Talk, talk, talk to your baby. The payoff will be huge. This loving father and son duo was shared to TT by smileybunch.

Dan Wuori

588,732 просмотров • 2 лет назад

4 preschoolers went on a 3-week screen detox. The results were striking. Zero screens. No tablets, no TV, no phones. After just three weeks: - Their attention and mental flexibility improved dramatically - Mistakes on cognitive tests dropped sharply - Brain scans showed significantly higher activity in the prefrontal cortex (the area responsible for focus and decision-making) This aligns with multiple studies, including research from the NIH’s ABCD Study and a 2022 University of Calgary paper, which found that reducing screen time in young children leads to measurable improvements in executive function and increased gray matter thickness in attention-related brain regions within weeks. Young children’s brains are highly plastic. Cutting screens even for a short time can produce noticeable positive changes in focus, behavior, and brain function. What’s been your experience with screens and young kids? Have you tried cutting back?

4 preschoolers went on a 3-week screen detox. The results were striking. Zero screens. No tablets, no TV, no phones. After just three weeks: - Their attention and mental flexibility improved dramatically - Mistakes on cognitive tests dropped sharply - Brain scans showed significantly higher activity in the prefrontal cortex (the area responsible for focus and decision-making) This aligns with multiple studies, including research from the NIH’s ABCD Study and a 2022 University of Calgary paper, which found that reducing screen time in young children leads to measurable improvements in executive function and increased gray matter thickness in attention-related brain regions within weeks. Young children’s brains are highly plastic. Cutting screens even for a short time can produce noticeable positive changes in focus, behavior, and brain function. What’s been your experience with screens and young kids? Have you tried cutting back?

Camus

18,922 просмотров • 26 дней назад

"I became very fascinated with the idea of the brain computer interface and what consequences that might bring to the world. And this is one of the reasons The Brain Show came up, so that people will have a chance to see some of the realization of these ideas, see how they feel about it, and where we should be leading things."

"I became very fascinated with the idea of the brain computer interface and what consequences that might bring to the world. And this is one of the reasons The Brain Show came up, so that people will have a chance to see some of the realization of these ideas, see how they feel about it, and where we should be leading things."

Peter Gabriel

24,897 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад