The Relationship Between Brain Activity and Attachment

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About 70 to 80% of their neural activity, if it's going to reach maturity, requires the interaction with another human relationship in order for that to happen. Relationships are shaping your brain activity or shaping your relationships all day, every day, even when you're asleep. And we'd say flourishing looks like this: Each of the parts of these systems are what we would call well differentiated.

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