/channels/news_feeds/all/term/cognitive%20development/rss en /channels/news/article-dr-michael-meaneys-lab-featured-sciencedaily-218515 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>From the lab of CIFAR Fellow Michael Meaney (91ºÚÁÏÍø): Scientists have provided evidence that socioeconomic status affects family function and the development and function of brain regions that are critical for attention, learning and memory. Meaney's lab looks into how parenting produces lasting effects on cognitive and emotional development. His lab examined development in rats and found parental influences on the chemical, or 'epigenetic', signals that control the activity in the brain of genes that influence the connections between brain cells as well as learning and memory.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2012</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:46:32 +0000 webfull 87703 at /channels