Sentence examples for of mental development from inspiring English sources

There is paucity of prospective studies regarding the impact of postpartum depression on children in developing countries across the domains of mental development.

As stated previously, Piaget identified the first phase of mental development as the sensorimotor stage (birth to two years).

Results included physical growth charts, norms for skeletal growth and tooth eruption, the Stanford-Binet test of mental development, the California mental and motor development scales.

Brahmavihāra, (Sanskrit: "living in the Brahman-heaven"), in Buddhist philosophy, the four noble practices of mental development through which men can attain subsequent rebirth in the Brahman heaven.

At the same time, breast-fed babies scored significantly higher than formula-fed babies on tests of mental development when they were seven months old and again at 18 months, according to the Dutch study.

Children raised in solitude achieve unusually low levels of mental development; chimpanzees that keep company with people achieve unusually high levels, including, Wise says, mastery of considerable sign language and even the ability to teach it to other chimpanzees.

In light of new research on mental development, juvenile justice is another developing area of new laws, Andrade said.

Additionally, we observed a protective effect of breast-feeding on mental development (Anderson et al. 1999).

Meanwhile, studies both in and outside of China have shown that children with prenatal exposure to high levels of air pollutants exhibit signs of slower mental development and of behavior disorders.

George was a child of strong feelings but of slow mental development.

The book dismisses tabula rasa notions of human mental development, citing a large body of research indicative of the determinist role played by genes.