December Meeting of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
The neurobiology of mature emotional processing develops slowly over childhood and adolescence. This talk will focus on the development of the human amygdala, a neural structure involved in emotional attention and learning, and the medial prefrontal cortex, which provides important signals for regulating strong emotions. Parents have a large influence on children’s emotions. Across various…