The Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health.

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Schore (2001 a)

The Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health.

Published in Infant Journal of Mental Health, 2001, 22, 7-66.

In the first part of a two-part review, Allan Schore reviews psychoneurobiological mechanisms underlying infant mental health and successful adaptation. He integrates attachment data on dyadic affective communications, developmental neuroscience research on the right brain and stress psychophysiology, and developmental psychopathology perspectives on psychopathogenesis. This provides an overview of healthy development: connecting attachment theory, stress regulation, and infant mental health. Schore also describes the neurobiology of a secure attachment, and development of the right brain, early limbic system, and orbital frontolimbic regions, suggesting that normal orbitofrontal and right brain development is connected to adaptive mental health. 379 references. "