The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Attachment
Bowlby, Ainsworth, and the neural circuitry of secure and insecure attachment: how the first relationship becomes the template for every relationship that follows
1,222-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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Attachment is not a feeling. It is a biological system, evolved to keep the infant close to a protective caregiver, that shapes the development of the brain's stress response, emotional regulation, and social cognition systems in ways that persist across the lifespan. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of attachment, traces the neural mechanisms through which the quality of the earliest caregiving relationship becomes encoded in brain architecture, and examines what the evidence reveals about the long shadow of early relational experience.
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