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Resources

• Motivation and Early Childhood Policy: Science-Based Approaches for Policymakers and Public Systems
• How to Motivate Children: Science-Based Approaches for Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers
• 5 Facts About Motivation That Are Often Misunderstood
• Training Module: "Build My Brain"
• Understanding Motivation: Building the Brain Architecture That Supports Learning, Health, and Community Participation
• The Brain Circuits Underlying Motivation: An Interactive Graphic
• ACEs and Toxic Stress: Frequently Asked Questions
• Protecting Brains, Stimulating Minds: The Early Life Roots of Success in School
• Urban Thinkscape: Transforming cityscapes into opportunities for playful learning
• Building the Core Skills Youth Need for Life: A Guide for Education and Social Service Practitioners
• How Children and Adults Can Build Core Capabilities for Life
• Current Frontiers of Innovation Portfolio Projects
• Brain Story Certification Course
• Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
• Building the Skills Adults Need for Life: A Guide for Practitioners
• Training Module: "Talk With Me Baby"
• 5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return
• MOOC: The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development
• Applying the Science of Child Development in Child Welfare Systems
• 8 Things to Remember about Child Development
• From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts
• Intergenerational Mobility Project: Building Adult Capabilities for Family Success
• Building Core Capabilities for Life
• Ready4Routines: Building the Skills for Mindful Parenting
• Social and Behavioral Determinants of Toxic Stress
• Why Do Some Children Respond to an Intervention and Others Don't?
• Using Brain Science to Build a New 2Gen Intervention
• The Brain Architecture Game
• Training Module: Health Care Practitioner Module and Resources
• Vroom
• Tipping the Scales: The Resilience Game
• InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health
• InBrief: Resilience Series
• Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience
• InBrief: The Science of Resilience
• A Decade of Science Informing Policy: The Story of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
• FIND: Using Science to Coach Caregivers
• Activities Guide: Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence
• InBrief: The Science of Neglect
• Parenting for Brain Development and Prosperity
• Child Development Core Story
• Using Brain Science to Create New Pathways out of Poverty
• Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
• InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health
• InBrief: The Science of Neglect
• Training Module: Executive Function
• InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning
• The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain
• InBrief: Executive Function
• The Toxic Stress of Early Childhood Adversity: Rethinking Health and Education Policy
• Three Core Concepts in Early Development
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture
• Brain Hero
• InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health
• InBrief: Early Childhood Program Effectiveness
• InBrief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development
• InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development
• Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function
• The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood
• Early Experiences Can Alter Gene Expression and Affect Long-Term Development
• Persistent Fear and Anxiety Can Affect Young Children's Learning and Development
• InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health
• Maternal Depression Can Undermine the Development of Young Children
• Five Numbers to Remember about Early Childhood Development
• Workforce Development, Welfare Reform, and Child Well-Being
• Establishing a Level Foundation for Life: Mental Health Begins in Early Childhood
• Early Childhood Program Evaluations: A Decision-Maker’s Guide
• The Science of Early Childhood Development: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do
• A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy
• The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture
• InBrief: Early Childhood Program Effectiveness
• InBrief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children's Development
• InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development
• Early Exposure to Toxic Substances Damages Brain Architecture
• Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain
• Children's Emotional Development Is Built into the Architecture of Their Brains
• Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships

Who We Are

• Andres Garcia Lopez
• Jenna Cavallaro
• Nat Kendall-Taylor, Ph.D.
• Melanie Berry
• Jimena Santillán
• Katie Pieper
• Carolyn Gibney
• Brandi Thomas
• Kathleen Conroy, M.D., M.S.
• Holly Schindler, Ph.D.
• Priscila Pumarada
• Suzanne Roberts, M.D.
• Wayne Ysaguirre
• Michael F. Troy, Ph.D., L.P.
• Michael Meaney, C.M., Ph.D., C.Q., F.R.S.C.
• Nora Razon
• Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.
• Alise Hegle
• Cerella Craig
• Inger Brown Cheves
• Rahil D. Briggs, Psy.D.
• W. Thomas Boyce, M.D.
• Louis Appel, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
• Byron D. Amos
• Javier Aceves, M.D.
• Melissa Rivard
• Erin C. Dunn, Sc.D., M.P.H.
• Dana Charles McCoy, Ph.D.
• Elsie M. Taveras, M.D., M.P.H.
• Karestan Chase Koenen, Ph.D.
• Gigi Luk, Ph.D.
• Meredith L. Rowe, Ed.D.
• Tien Ung
• Evan Roth-Howe
• Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
• Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D.
• David Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.
• John R. Weisz, Ph.D.
• Catherine Snow, Ph.D.
• Jordan W. Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
• Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.
• Mark H. Moore, Ph.D.
• Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D.
• Laura Kubzansky, Ph.D., M.P.H.
• Ronald Kessler, Ph.D.
• Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D.
• Stephanie M. Jones, Ph.D.
• Paul Harris, Ph.D.
• Matt Gillman, M.D., S.M.
• Janina R. Galler, M.D.
• Richard Frank, Ph.D.
• Wafaie Fawzi, Dr.P.H., M.B.B.S., M.P.H., M.S.
• Michela Fagiolini, Ph.D.
• Kristen Holmstrand
• Fernando D. Martinez, M.D.
• Judy L. Cameron, Ph.D.
• Silvia A. Bunge, Ph.D.
• Megan R. Gunnar, Ph.D.
• Greg J. Duncan, Ph.D.
• Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D.
• Takao Hensch, Ph.D.
• Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
• Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D.
• Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Ph.D.
• Myron Belfer, M.D., M.P.A.
• William Beardslee, M.D.
• Steve Cohen, M.P.A.
• James M. Radner, M.Phil.
• Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
• Nathaniel Foote, J.D., M.B.A.
• Philip A. Fisher, Ph.D.
• Susan Nall Bales, M.A.
• Corey Zimmerman
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• Sally Pfitzer
• Kent Neumann
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• Licong Liu
• Susan Levene
• Lisa Haidar
• Michelle Foley
• Tassy Warren
• Alison Driesch
• Susan Crowley
• James Cairns
• Nicole Brown
• Al Race
• Maribel Blanco
• Gillian A. Najarian
• Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.

Media Coverage

• Novak Djokovic's war memories make him fund childhood research
• The damage the US government is doing to 12,000 kids
• More migrant kids held in mass shelters, AP investigation finds
• How Traumatized Children See the World, According to Their Drawings
• 'Toxic stress' on children can harm their lifelong learning, mental and physical health
• The quest to find biomarkers for toxic stress, resilience in children
• Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities
• Separated families and the urgency of the ticking clock
• The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children
• Keeping Migrant Kids in Detention Centers and Shelters Can Damage Them
• When a child is traumatized, this one thing helps their recovery the most
• After family separation: How to promote healing for migrant children?
• Brazil's audacious plan to fight poverty using neuroscience and parents' love
• Live Q&A: Crisis at the Border (video)
• Discussion: What trauma are separated migrant children now dealing with?
• Local View: All state-sponsored family separations are catastrophic moral disasters
• Viewpoint: How separating children from parents causes irreparable harm
• Experts warn of emotional toll on migrant children as families reunite
• How trauma and stress affect a child's brain development
• 5 steps to build your baby’s curious brain, according to Harvard researchers
• “The only buffer you have is a parent. Take that away, and everything falls apart.”
• The Effects of Parental Separation on Children (subscription required)
• The health impacts of separating migrant children from parents
• What to know about the negative health effects of separating kids and parents
• What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’
• How the toxic stress of family separation can harm a child
• Commentary: Yes, teach kids how to cope -- but preventing trauma in the first place is more important
• Novak Partners With Harvard To Defeat ‘Toxic Effects Of Child Poverty’
• The Dangers of Distracted Parenting
• Immigrant Children Who Are Forcibly Separated From Their Parents Face Long-Term Trauma
• Doctors prescribe books to strengthen the parent-child bond
• Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
• Fighting toxic stress in children is tough but possible
• Opinion: How to Turn Children Into Criminals
• Platforms for Scalable Learning in the Social Sector
• This program is proven to help moms and babies—so why aren’t we investing in it more?
• The urban design project sneaking puzzles and hopscotch into abandoned lots
• Unstable, Unsafe Housing Harms Children’s Brain Development
• Como usar brincadeiras para ensinar habilidades essenciais a crianças, segundo Harvard
• Prof. Phil Fisher: "The process of serve and return"
• Nature and Nurture: Can new science inform child policy?
• For refugee children, war zone trauma proves lasting and toxic
• Little kids and 'toxic stress': we can solve this
• The Diversity of Play
• La ciencia de un nuevo Sename
• How severe, ongoing stress can affect a child's brain
• How poverty affects the brain
• When is stress good for you?
• Resilience: A skill your child really needs to learn (and what you can do to help)
• A New Understanding of the Childhood Brain
• The Decade of the Brain
• Does Poverty Change the Way We Think?
• First Impressions: A virtual experience of the first year of life
• Interview with Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
• Fewer homeless veterans. More homeless children in state.
• Expensive Problems: Researchers Say 'High Cost' Adults Can Be Predicted At Age 3
• Special Report "Our Children: Searching for Solutions"
• Learning Through Play: Education does not stop when recess begins
• How Poverty Affects the Brain
• Pediatricians take on new role: Fighting the bigotry and violence that hurts kids
• Can poverty be passed down? A nonprofit tries to break the cycle
• The Limits of 'Grit'
• Family Experience with Toxic Stress
• The Complex Lives of Babies
• Stress Fractures: A developing brain exposed to a stressful environment can cause a lifetime of pain
• Bringing Brain Science to Early Childhood
• The brain science behind Britain's new parenting classes
• Grandmother, child rise from trauma with help from Childhaven
• #OpportunityRedefined: Interview with Jack P. Shonkoff, Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
• Why Netflix's Parental Leave Policy is Good For Babies
• Reinforcing best practices for parents
• The Diaper Dilemma
• Can science save abused, neglected kids – and money, too?
• What Poverty Does to the Young Brain
• The Brain and Biology of Parenting
• A Single Denver Mom Learns to Manage Toxic Stress and Tighten Family Bonds
• Grantee Spotlight: Center on the Developing Child
• The Science of Suicide: Researchers Work To Determine Who's Most At Risk
• Take the ACE Quiz – And Learn What It Does and Doesn't Mean
• Can Family Secrets Make You Sick?
• Toxic stress in babies and children causes lifelong problems
• Starting Early
• The First Year
• Life After Stress: The Biology Of Trauma And Resilience
• Common Core Reading: The Struggle Over Struggle
• Under the Hood of the Adolescent Brain
• The Way to Beat Poverty
• An Experiment in Zero Parenting
• How Childhood Neglect Harms the Brain
• Inequality Begins at Birth
• How Childhood Neglect and Abuse Impacts the Brain
• How Supportive Parenting Protects the Brain
• Hospital Program Coaches Parents To Help Alleviate 'Toxic Stress' in Babies and Toddlers
• A Call for Two-Generation Strategies to Achieve 'Breakthrough' Impacts
• Nurtury Learning Lab Designed to Foster Opportunity
• Can Brain Science Help Lift People Out Of Poverty?
• Teaching Through Trauma
• Spare the Rod – The Biology of Poverty and Violence
• Boys Report PTSD When Moved Out Of Poverty
• Soldiers Enter Military With Higher Rates of Mental Illness
• Suicidal Tendencies Are Evident Before Deployment, Study Finds
• Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape a Child's Brain
• Bringing Home the Plight of Abandoned Children
• The New Science Behind Early Education
• Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That
• Protecting Children From Toxic Stress
• The Road to Resilience
• Following His Passion
• The Suicide Detective
• Harvard EdCast: The Future of Early Childhood Ed
• Levitt Stresses Early Socialization in Center on the Developing Child’s Lecture Series
• Poverty Impacts Developing Brains
• 5 Disorders Share Genetic Risk Factors, Study Finds
• Study Points To 'Shared Biology' Between 5 Psychiatric Disorders
• How Stress Gets Under the Skin: Q&A With Neuroscientist Bruce McEwen
• Overcoming Impact of Adversity on Learning
• Study Questions Effectiveness of Therapy for Suicidal Teenagers
• Reclaiming Childhood
• 'Your Honor, My Genes Made Me Do It'
• Cuddle Your Kid!
• Can Omar Khadr Get Past the Trauma?
• Targeting Childhood Obesity Early
• What Does Obama Really Believe In?
• Toxic Stress – Why Abuse and Trauma Linger Into Adulthood
• Stressful Childhood Events Linked to Elevated Inflammation in Adolescence
• U.S. Childcare System Makes 'Having It All' All the More Difficult
• Neurodevelopment: Unlocking the Brain
• Can Parents Access Enough Information to Judge For-Profit Childcare?
• How Might Autistic Children Be Similar? In Their Brainwaves
• Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL
• S.J.D. Student Receives Julius B. Richmond Fellowship
• HBO's Weight of the Nation: Society, Not Individual, To Blame
• Parents' Depression Linked to Problems in Children
• Violence Ages Children's DNA, Shortens Their Chromosomes
• Deporting Parents Hurts Kids
• Protecting the Heart with Optimism
• Predicting Suicide
• Targeting Toxic Stress in Children
• Searching for Answers to Causes of Childhood Depression
• Harvard EdCast: Toxic Stress in Early Childhood
• Tender Young Brains: What Kind of Childhood Stress Should Parents Actually Be Stressing About?
• A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
• Neurons in Youth
• A Child’s Memory in Military Time
• Life After Death: Helping Former Child Soldiers Become Whole Again
• Risks Seen for Children of Illegal Immigrants
• Harvard EdCast: Protecting Children's Brains
• Special Edition of the Science Journal Supports the Need for Greater Attention to Preschool
• Protecting Children From Adversity Key to Healthy Development
• Child’s Telomeres May Tell of Early-Life Adversity
• Helping Children to Fly
• The Child from Mozambique
• Looking for Early Signs of Autism in Brain Waves
• Tying Race and Stress to Health
• Study: Immigrant Hispanics Less Stressed, Healthier
• Investing in Early Childhood Education is to Invest in Human Capital
• The Poverty Clinic
• Small Child, Big Worries
• How Childhood Trauma Can Cause Adult Obesity
• Putting the Stress on Stress
• A Tragedy and a Mystery: Understanding Suicide and Self-Injury
• Alzheimer's Drugs for 'Lazy Eye'?
• Figuring Out Suicidal Behavior
• Depressed Parents' Negative Effects on Kids are Combatable
• Preventing Suicide
• Stressed Out! The Powerful Biology of Stress
• The Biology of Emotion—and What It May Teach Us about Helping People to Live Longer
• Childhood Poverty May Leave Its Mark
• Memories are made of this: Kandel outlines how brains manage data, and are changed by it
• The Science of Success
• Hub Lab Writing the Book on Face-Reading
• Understanding the Anxious Mind
• Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
• Want a Rich, Happy Country? Start Young.
• Nova: Autism Genes
• Aging well starts in womb, as mom's choices affect whole life
• Looking for Answers on Autism
• The Developing Child
• The Brains of Babes

Translations

• Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change (Serbian subtitles)
• InBrief: The Science of Neglect (Serbian subtitles)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Serbian subtitles)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Serbian subtitles)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Serbian subtitles)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Bulgarian subtitles)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Bulgarian subtitles)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Bulgarian subtitles)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Urdu subtitles)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Urdu subtitles)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Urdu subtitles)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Icelandic)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Icelandic)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Icelandic)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Danish)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Danish)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Mandarin subtitles)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Mandarin subtitles)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Mandarin subtitles)
• Fonction Exécutive Guide d'Activités
• InBrief: Fonction Exécutive
• Activities Guide: Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence (Arabic translation)
• Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (Arabic subtitles)
• Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Arabic subtitles)
• Experiences Build Brain Architecture (Arabic subtitles)
• Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes (Arabic subtitles)
• InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health (Arabic subtitles)
• 5 Pasos para el Desarrollo Mental Saque y Volea
• Das Melhores Práticas aos Impactos Transformadores
• Construindo o sistema de "Controle de Tráfego Aéreo" do cérebro: Como as primeiras experiências moldam o desenvolvimento das funções executivas
• Resumo: Função Executiva: Habilidades Para a Vida e Aprendizagem
• En Breve: Los Cimientos de la Salud a lo Largo de la Vida
• En Breve: La Ciencia del Desarrollo Infantil Temprano
• En Breve: El Impacto de la Adversidad Durante la Infancia Sobre el Desarrollo de los Niños
• En Breve: La Función Ejecutiva — Habilidades para la vida y el aprendizaje
• En Breve: La Ciencia de la Negligencia
• En Breve: La Eficacia de los Programas Para la Infancia Temprana
• La teoría del cambio para el desarrollo infantil: Crear capacidades en los adultos
• El estrés tóxico perjudica el desarrollo saludable
• Las interacciones "servir y devolver" dan forma a la estructura cerebral
• Las experiencias construyen la arquitectura cerebral
• Tres Conceptos Clave del Desarrollo Infantil Temprano
• En Breve: La Eficacia de los Programas Para la Infancia Temprana
• En Breve: La Ciencia de la Negligencia
• En Breve: La Función Ejecutiva -- Habilidades para la vida y el aprendizaje
• Construir as Competências dos Adultos para Melhorar o Desempenho das Crianças: Uma Teoria de Mudança
• Super Cerebro
• O Stress Tóxico Prejudica o Desenvolvimento Saudável
• O Jogo de Ação e Reação Modela os Circuitos do Cérebro
• As Experiências Moldam a Arquitetura do Cérebro
• Três Conceitos Fundamentais Sobre o Desenvolvimento na Primeira Infância
• Super-Cérebro
• En Breve: El Impacto de la Adversidad Durante la Infancia Sobre el Desarrollo de los Niños
• En Breve: La Ciencia del Desarrollo Infantil Temprano
• En Breve: Los Cimientos de la Salud a lo Largo de la Vida

Guides

• A Guide to Executive Function
• A Guide to Toxic Stress