Some children are biologically more sensitive to their environment

22 November 2017

Tom Boyce, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Tom Boyce, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, observes that some children are biologically more sensitive than others to the context in which they are growing up. The good news is that children who are the most affected by adversity and stress are also the ones who are most sensitive to the supportive and nurturing aspects of their environments.

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