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Direct contact, ideally with
mother, her touch,
movement, voice, body and facial expressions,
her taste and smell act as nutrients that shape
a baby’s physical, emotional, sexual and cognitive
brain systems. Discover why past and present brain research
challenges many assumptions regarding bonding and early
child care policies. |
Part I summarizes Prescott’s 15-years of pioneering research
at NIH 
on the biological roots of violence, mother-infant separation
and the developing brain. Jim describes how early bonding,
nurturing touch, movement and breastfeeding encode the
developing brain for a lifetime of affectionate relationships.
Rare and dramatic images, from the award winning documentary
Rock-A-By Baby, link permanent abnormalities in the brain
to mother-infant separation, abuse and early neglect. Adult
depression, violence and substance abuse are in part caused
by these early traumas to the brain. This research summary
and The Intelligence of the Heart redefines "bonding"
as a biological imperative.
Part II includes the original 30 minute version of Rock-A-By
Baby premiered first at the 1970 White House Conference
on Children. This rare documentary highlights the emotional-psychological
devastation of the failure of physical affectional bonding
in the maternal-infant relationship in animals and humans.
Brain-behavioral abnormalities are vividly dramatized in rhesus
monkeys
as a consequence of mother-infant separation.
 Child
Abuse, CTV Toronto (11 minutes), provides an overview
of the Somatosensory Affectional Deprivation theory of peace
and violence. Explicit medical photos of abused children,
a five second clip of the rape scene from "Clock Work
Orange" and some natural nudity in primitive tribal cultures
are shown. The video provides dramatic documentation that
brain cell abnormalities were present in mother deprived
monkeys. The violence of these animals could be transformed
into peaceful, alert, socially interactive animals through
paleocerebellar surgery but not neocerbellar surgery. This
study was conducted to demonstrate the role of the cerebellum
in regulating emotional-social behaviors and not to advocate
cerebeller surgery for violent individuals. This rare
film footage is not available anywhere else.
See http://www.violence.de/berman/artical.html
Happy Babies, (7 minutes) interview with Connie Chung,
Dr. Prescott and Suzanne Arms describes specific parenting
practices to assure maternal-infant bonding. The television
news broadcast features mothers describing how breastfeeding
provides unusual emotional bonding with their infants.
Neuropsychology of Affectional Bonding, (5 minutes)
interview discussing the neuropsychology of sensory stimulation
and deprivation upon brain- behavioral development and why
touching, hugging and carrying one's infant/child on the body
of the mother, father or caretaker (vestibular-cerebellar
stimulation) are essential for normal brain development and
function and, thus, normal emotional-social development of
the infant/child.
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