HealthDay (4/5) reports, “Show your baby your love, and you’ll get a kinder, gentler adult child as your reward, a new study suggests.” More than 20 years ago, researchers “began studying the impact on newborns of time spent in physical contact with their mothers,” and they “followed these infants, born in the mid- to late-1990s, for two decades.” Now, the researchers’ “latest results – based on nearly 100 young adults – show that the maternal contact received all those years ago had a measurable impact on social brain functioning decades later, and the ability to empathize and relate to others.” The study was published online in the journal PNAS.
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— “Is Empathy Born in Mom’s First Hugs? “Cara Murez, HealthDay, April 5, 2021