Joan L. Luby, Washington University School of Medicine (IMAGE)

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Joan L. Luby, Washington University School of Medicine

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Joan L. Luby, M.D., holds a model of a brain. Her team has found that maternal support and nurturing received during the preschool years influences the development of the brain's hippocampus in childhood and early adolescence.

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