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| Foreword | |
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| QUIZ How Well Do You Know Your Child's Brain? | |
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| Introduction The Brain That Builds Itself | |
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| Meet Your Child's Brain | |
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| The Five Hidden Talents of Your Baby's Brain | |
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| Ages: Birth to One Year | |
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| Myth: If anything goes wrong, Mom is to blame | |
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| In the Beginning: Prenatal Development | |
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| Ages: Conception to Birth | |
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| Practical tip: Less stress, fewer problems | |
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| Practical tip: Eat fish during pregnancy | |
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| Baby, You Were Born to Learn | |
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| Ages: Birth to Two Years | |
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| Myth: Breast-feeding increases intelligence | |
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| Practical tip: Guided practice can accelerate motor development | |
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| Beyond Nature Versus Nurture | |
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| Ages: Conception to College | |
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| Footprints on the genome | |
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| Culture can drive evolution | |
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| Growing Through a Stage | |
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| Once in a Lifetime: Sensitive Periods | |
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| Ages: Birth to Fifteen Years | |
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| Brain food | |
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| The limits of brain plasticity | |
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| Born Linguists | |
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| Ages: Birth to Eight Years | |
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| Practical tip: Teach foreign languages early in life | |
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| Beautiful Dreamer | |
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| Ages: Birth to Nine Years | |
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| Practical tip: How to get your baby to sleep | |
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| What children dream about | |
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| It's a Girl! Gender Differences | |
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| Ages: Birth to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: Broadening your child's abilities | |
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| Adolescence: It's Not Just About Sex | |
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| Ages: Twelve Years to Twenty Years | |
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| Myth: Adolescents have a longer day-night cycle | |
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| Start Making Sense | |
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| Learning to See | |
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| Ages: Birth to Five Years | |
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| Practical tip: Outdoor play improves vision | |
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| Speculation: Modern life is changing our brains | |
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| Connect with Your Baby Through Hearing and Touch | |
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| Ages: Third Trimester to Two Years | |
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| Practical tip: Protect your child from noise, starting before birth | |
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| The neuroscience of snuggle | |
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| Eat Dessert First: Flavor Preferences | |
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| Ages: Second Trimester to Two Years | |
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| Practical tip: Getting your child to eat spinach | |
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| Practical tip: Worried about your child's weight? | |
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| The Serious Business of Play | |
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| The Best Gift You Can Give: Self-Control | |
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| Ages: Two Years to Seven Years | |
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| Practical tip: Imaginary friends, real skills | |
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| Practical tip: Learning two languages improves cognitive control | |
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| Playing for Keeps | |
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| Ages: Two Years to Eighteen Years | |
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| Play in adult life | |
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| Moving the Body and Brain Along | |
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| Ages: Four Years to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: Protect your child from head injuries | |
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| Electronic Entertainment and the Multitasking Myth | |
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| Ages: Birth to Eighteen Years | |
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| Speculation: Does Internet use reduce empathy? | |
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| Practical tip: Baby videos do more harm than good | |
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| Your Child as an Individual | |
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| Nice to Meet You: Temperament | |
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| Ages: Birth to Twenties | |
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| Why you're turning into your mother | |
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| Myth: Birth order influences personality | |
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| Emotions in the Driver's Seat | |
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| Ages: Birth to Early Twenties | |
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| Myth: The right hemisphere is the emotional side | |
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| Self-control promotes empathy | |
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| Empathy and Theory of Mind | |
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| Ages: One Year to Five Years | |
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| Older siblings speed a child's theory-of-mind development | |
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| Imitation in the brain | |
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| Playing Nicely with Others | |
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| Ages: Birth to Early Twenties | |
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| Stereotyping and socialization | |
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| Practical tip: Promoting conscience | |
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| Your Child's Brain at School | |
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| Starting to Write the Life Story | |
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| Ages: Two Years to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: The best study habits | |
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| Babies forget faster | |
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| Learning to Solve Problems | |
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| Ages: Two Years to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: Social rejection reduces IQ | |
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| Take It from the Top: Music | |
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| Ages: Birth to Nine Years | |
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| Myth: The Mozart effect | |
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| Practical tip: The benefits of music and drama | |
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| Go Figure: Learning About Math | |
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| Ages: Birth to Early Twenties | |
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| Practical tip: Stereotypes and test performance | |
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| The Many Roads to Reading | |
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| Ages: Four Years to Twelve Years | |
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| Practical tip: Reading at home | |
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| The causes of dyslexia | |
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| Bumps in the Road | |
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| Hang in There, Baby: Stress and Resilience | |
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| Ages: Third Trimester to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: Dandelion and orchid children | |
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| Mind-Blindness: Autism | |
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| Ages: One Year to Four Years | |
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| Speculation: Are feral children autistic? | |
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| Practical tip: Behavioral therapy is helpful if started early | |
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| Old Genes Meet the Modern World: ADHD | |
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| Ages: Eight Years to Eighteen Years | |
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| Practical tip: Spotting untrustworthy treatments | |
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| Myth: The all-powerful brain scan | |
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| Catch Your Child Being Good: Behavior Modification | |
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| Ages: One Year to Twelve Years | |
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| Practical tip: Getting to good | |
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| Myth: Praise builds self-esteem | |
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| A Tough Road to Travel: Growing Up in Poverty | |
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| Ages: Conception to Eighteen Years | |
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| Epidemiology is hard to interpret | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |