Love increases your baby's brain, say neurologists - but if you neglect, abuse or traumatize your child, you are killing billions of brain cells!

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By Sara Burrows November 3, 2017

X-rays show that the brain of a beloved three-year-old is twice the size of a neglected child of the same age

What is the difference between a 3 year old left brain and a 3 year old right brain?

Love makes a crucial difference.The child whose brain can be seen in the left picture had a caregiver who constantly loved, cared, responded and positively communicated with him. But the child whose brain appears in the picture on the right was neglected, neglected and abused.

"A child on the right will grow into an adult who is less intelligent, less able to empathize with others, more likely to become addicted to drugs and involved in violent crime ... and to develop mental and other serious health problems," says the article published in the journal The Telegraph in 2012.

It is obvious that it was only in 2012 that neurologists "started" to understand that the baby's interaction with the mother determines how its brain grows or not, the text says.

One of the leading neurologists in this field is a professor of psychiatry at the university UCLA Allan Schore. A baby's brain growth "literally requires positive interaction between mother and infant," Schore says in the video below. "The development of neural brain circuits depends on it."

Schore emphasizes that the first two years of life are the most important for brain development, because it is produced in that period 80 percent of the brain cells a person will have. From the beginning of the third trimester of pregnancy until the 24th month of life, the human brain more than doubles in size, but only if it receives "real" positive experiences, says Schore. "There is something that the human brain needs in terms of contact with other people in order to grow," says Schore.

During the first two years of life, brain cells and their "wiring" are established - connections that are rarely or never used are closed and those that are used often are strengthened.

"Connections that are not used die," he says. "It's an old principle: use it or lose it. Brain cells that start to act together, get together and connect, so they don't die together."

“The brain doesn't keep growing and growing…. This process does not take place continuously. The brain organizes itself, well disorganizes, then reorganizes. The disorganization of the brain—the mass death of billions of neurons and the disconnection of synapses—is just part of the process as the brain grows as it reorganizes itself."

Hormones produced by the bond between the infant and the mother (or primary caregiver) affect the way genes are coded. "We now know for sure that endorphins have a positive effect on genes," said Schore. "We also know that cortisol, the stress hormone, also affects genes."

This is why emotionally enriched (positive) environments are key for infants, he says.

Join the child and take your time in order to during the first two years increased the level of positive emotions, such as joy, interest and excitement, because you literally set the tone for the rest of that person's life.