Experience, brain, and behavior: The importance of a head start

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1031-1035

  Eisenberg, Leon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; EXPERIENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032997297     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.5.1031     Document Type: Review

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