In this video, one of Canada's leading experts on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience talks about how early childhood educational support can have a positive life-long impact.
In this video, one of Canada’s leading experts on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience talks about the control centre of the brain called the prefrontal cortex.
Cognitive scientist Dr. Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia talks about what works in classroom instruction, and what does not.
In this video, Dr. Adele Diamond talks about how tests that show infants can understand more than we realize.
Most of what the parenting books tell you is wrong. Parenting the defiant child is really about training parents to be more effective adults, according to Yale University’s Dr. Alan Kazdin.
Dr. Christine Newman, Paediatric Palliative Care Specialist, talks about the most common questions children have about their own deaths and discusses issues ranging from withdrawing life support to what to say and what not to say to grieving children.
The Director of Neuroimaging Research at the University of Iowa, Dr. Nancy Andreasen, talks about what creativity looks like inside the brain, and how creative genius can be nurtured or destroyed.
Dr. Christine Dunkel Schetter talks about the risks associated with premature birth and how stress in pregnant mothers is one factor affecting premature birth.
Dr. Stephanie Carlson talks about how children’s brains develop decision-making skills and how parents can help foster self-control in their children.
Dr. Judith Beck explains how the way we think affects what we do and how we feel, and how parents can help their children reframe their negative thoughts into more hopeful ones.
Psychologist Dr. Frank Farley describes the ‘thrill-seeking’ child and how to motivate and direct their activity in positive ways.
Dr. Dante Cicchetti explains how child neglect and abuse affect the physiology and the development of a child’s brain.
Undertreating pain from childhood injections can result in needle phobia. This video looks at how parents and health care providers can help.
This 10-minute video describes TeleLink, a technology-driven long-distance mental health service for children living in remote areas of Canada.