Andrew Huberman· PhD
And the reason I find this model so attractive is that it's very clear that healthy child-parent bonds are established, but not by one or the other of these right brainer left brain systems, but by both.
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And the reason I find this model so attractive is that it's very clear that healthy child-parent bonds are established, but not by one or the other of these right brainer left brain systems, but by both.
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It's very apparent that healthy social bonding between children and caretaker relies on the fact that both this right brain system and the left brain system are engaged, that there's a synchronization of autonomic function, meaning a joining together in actual somatic feeling, and that there's a synchronization of experience that's more about some outward or external stimulus, like reading a book or watching a show together or enjoying some common experience of a meal together.
Now, what Dr. Shor's work and the work of others is now showing is that early infant parent in particular infant mother attachment involves a coordination or synchronization of these right brain circuits and these left brain circuits as they relate relate, excuse me, to the autonomic nervous system.