#childhood development
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers at University of California San Diego approximately $30 million over five years to expand and deepen longitudinal studies of the developing brain in children.
“This is a groundbreaking study of normal and atypical brain developmental trajectories from day 0 to 10 years of age in a large sample of about 8,000 families,” Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego.
Being a boat kid, an army brat, or a multiple-times-an-immigrant kid isn’t without benefits: ‘Third Culture Kids’ (TCKs) are more adaptable, more open-minded, and better cross-cultural communicators than our single-cultured counterparts.
Yet, travelling a lot between cultures we have no ‘birthright’ to participate in isn’t without challenges either. Often the people we need help from most- our…