Cerebrum Podcast: The Brain’s Emotional Development - With Nim Tottenham, Ph.D. by The Dana Foundation

In our Cerebrum article, “The Brain’s Emotional Development,” Nim Tottenham, Ph.D. writes about why emotional brain development lags behind thinking, mobility, and communication skills. In our related podcast with Tottenham, an associate professor of psychology at Columbia University and director of the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, the researcher talks about the role that gender, puberty, and species plays in emotional development and how research advances could impact policy-makers and parents.