Maternal Support and the Volume of the Brain's Hippocampus (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Support from mom not only can make a child feel better. It also appears to have a big effect on brain development. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that kids with supportive mothers during the preschool years tend to have steeper increases in the volume of the brain's hippocampus by the time they reach early adolescence. Jim Dryden reports...

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