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Via. Harvard Centre on the Developing Child This narrated interactive feature presents a logic model showing how policies and programs that strengthen specific kinds of caregiver and community capacities can build the foundations of healthy development. These support beneficial biological adaptations in the brain and other organ systems, which lead to positive outcomes in health and development across the lifespan.
This is a picture of a 6 week old normal baby brain compared to the brain of a baby with Fetal Alcohol syndrome. When a woman drinks alcohol when pregnant, the alcohol crosses the placental barrier and the baby ‘ingests’ the alcohol. When the babys body metabolizes alcohol, there is a decrease in the amount of neurons, neurons in abnormal locations and abnormal brain formation. It is very important for a pregnant woman to not drink alcohol when she is pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome can cause the following problems later in the babys life including mental retardation, behavior problems, slow growth, physical/facial deformities, vision or hearing problems, heart defects, or even infant death. About 20% of babies in utero have been exposed to high alcohol levels, and about 40000 babies are born per year with damage from alcohol ingested while in utero.
A Critical Window into the Developing Human Brain Profiled in Nature
First major report using data from the BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain shines a light on where genes are turned on in the brain during mid-pregnancy, what goes wrong in developmental disorders like autism, and what makes human brains unique.
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have generated a high-resolution blueprint for how to build a human brain, with a detailed map of where different genes are turned on and off during mid-pregnancy at unprecedented anatomical resolution. This first major report using data from the BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain is published in the journal Nature this week. The data provide exceptional insight into diseases like autism that are linked to early brain development, and to the origins of human uniqueness. The rich data set is publicly available to everyone via the Allen Brain Atlas data portal.
“Knowing where a gene is expressed in the brain can provide powerful clues about what its role is,” says Ed Lein, Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. “This atlas gives a comprehensive view of which genes are on and off in which specific nuclei and cell types while the brain is developing during pregnancy. This means that we have a blueprint for human development: an understanding of the crucial pieces necessary for the brain to form in a normal, healthy way, and a powerful way to investigate what goes wrong in disease.”
This paper represents the first major report to make use of data collected for the BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, a big science consortium initiative which seeks to create a map of the transcriptome across the entire course of human development. “Coming on the first anniversary of the BRAIN Initiative, this is a terrific example of the potential for public-private partnerships to accelerate progress in neuroscience,” says Lein.
Thomas R. Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, praises the BrainSpan Atlas as an already invaluable tool to researchers. “While we have had previous reports of molecular and cellular changes during human brain growth, the BrainSpan Atlas is the first comprehensive map of the dramatic trajectory of gene expression across prenatal and postnatal development,” he says. “This atlas is already transforming the way scientists approach human brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia. Although the many genes associated with autism and schizophrenia don’t show a clear relationship to each other in the adult brain, the BrainSpan Atlas reveals how these diverse genes are connected in the prenatal brain.”
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What if you could take action to reduce crime, improve health and education level, increase family incomes and state revenues, and improve the quality of life in communities throughout your state? Where would you begin? Science tells us that we may find the solutions to these complex social problems in early childhood, when the architecture of the brain begin to form.
via developingchild.harvard.edu
An easy to follow explanation on Early Brain Development & it’s importance
Early Brain development and activities to support this.
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Early Childhood Brain Development: Three core concepts in early brain development.
Taken from the Harvard Centre on the Developing Child
A vital and productive society with a prosperous and sustainable future is built on a foundation of healthy child development. Health in the earliest years—beginning with the future mother’s well-being before she becomes pregnant—lays the groundwork for a lifetime of vitality. When developing biological systems are strengthened by positive early experiences, children are more likely to thrive and grow up to be healthy adults. Sound health also provides a foundation for the construction of sturdy brain architecture and the achievement of a broad range of skills and learning capacities. This publication was co-authored by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/reports_and_working_papers/foundations-of-lifelong-health/
This narrated interactive feature presents a logic model showing how policies and programs that strengthen specific kinds of caregiver and community capacities can build the foundations of healthy development. These support beneficial biological adaptations in the brain and other organ systems, which lead to positive outcomes in health and development across the lifespan.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/multimedia/interactive_features/a_logic_model_to_drive_science_based_innovation/
Fraser Mustard on his life as a pioneer of early childhood development
http://tvoparents.tvo.org/video/166732/fraser-mustard-crusader-early-childhood-development
What Normal Child Brain Development Looks Like
Taken from TVO parents online
http://tvoparents.tvo.org/video/193918/what-normal-child-brain-development-looks
Why full-day kindergarten might miss the boat on early learning.
Taken from TVO parents online
http://tvoparents.tvo.org/video/194430/full-day-kindergarten-important-early-learning
When early learning happens and why it is important.
Taken from TVO parents online
http://tvoparents.tvo.org/video/194429/importance-early-learning
This edition of the InBrief series outlines basic concepts from four decades of program evaluation research which help explain how society can ensure that children have a solid foundation for a productive future by creating and implementing effective early childhood programs and policies.
via Harvard Centre on the Developing Child
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/inbrief_series/inbrief_program_effectiveness/
Support for Professionals in the Field: Increasing demands for evidence-based early childhood services and the need by policymakers to know whether a program is effective or whether it warrants a significant investment of public and/or private funds—coupled with the often-politicized debate around these topics—make it imperative for policymakers and civic leaders to have the independent knowledge needed to be able to evaluate the quality and relevance of the evidence provided in reports.
This clear, concise guide from the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs helps prepare decision-makers to be better consumers of evaluation information by posing five key questions that address both the substance and the practical utility of rigorous evaluation research.
via Harvard Center on the Developing Child
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_working_papers/decision_makers_guide/
This 2007 publication from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child offers a concise, clear overview of the science of early childhood and brain development as it relates to policies and programs that could make a significant difference in the lives of children—and all of society. It includes discussion of seven core concepts of development and their implications for policy and practice.
via. Harvard Centre on the Developing Child
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_working_papers/science_of_early_childhood_development/
A vital and productive society with a prosperous and sustainable future is built on a foundation of healthy child development. Health in the earliest years—beginning with the future mother’s well-being before she becomes pregnant—lays the groundwork for a lifetime of vitality. When developing biological systems are strengthened by positive early experiences, children are more likely to thrive and grow up to be healthy adults. Sound health also provides a foundation for the construction of sturdy brain architecture and the achievement of a broad range of skills and learning capacities. This publication was co-authored by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs.
via. Harvard Centre on the Developing Child
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_working_papers/foundations-of-lifelong-health/
This edition of the InBrief series addresses basic concepts of early childhood development, established over decades of neuroscience and behavioral research, which help illustrate why child development—particularly from birth to five years—is a foundation for a prosperous and sustainable society.
via. Centre on the Developing Child
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/inbrief_series/inbrief_science_of_ecd/
