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THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
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The Biological and Social Determinants of Child Development
stimulates cross-disciplinary communication and research collaboration in the field of
child development. While the papers in this issue seem diverse in terms of topic and
discipline, there are a number of common themes: *critical period for brain development
and the importance of specific environmental input during this period; *importance of
early brain development and enriched environments is supported in articles describing
findings from human studies; *potential for brain plasticity following specialized
retraining is found in a compelling paper demonstrating different profiles of brain
activation for normal readers vs. those who have dyslexia and younger children at high
risk for development of reading disabilities; and *critical period, brain plasticity, and
parallel changes in developing behavior and brain structure and functioning. As a number
of papers in this issue describe potential interventions, one is relevant because it
describes the numerous factors that make results of such studies have the potential to
generalize to larger populations. Putting the described papers in a broad perspective, the
last article argues that we cannot understand the health status of a society without
understanding the health-determining influences across the life course.
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