Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

This neurosciencenews.com article discusses how brain scans indicate positive and nurturing attention of mother can influence the hippocampus region of the brain to grow.  The results were derived from brain scans of the children as they interacted with their mother’s.  Interestingly, the mother’s self-perception was more positive than the results of the children’s brain scan.  Perhaps the mother’s overrate their positive and nurturing qualities?  Or the child does not perceive the mother’s efforts as positive and nurturing?  What do you think?

Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain