PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ungar, Tamas
TI  - Neuroscience, Joy, and the Well-Infant Visit That Got Me Thinking
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2013
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 80--83
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/1/80.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/1/80.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2017 Jan 01; 15
AB  - This essay is the narrative of a seemingly routine well-infant visit and the joyful bond that unites mother and infant and is at the forefront of early infant brain development. An incredible story unfolds. Through this short discourse, I hope to offer a glimmer of insight into the very meaning of being human while encouraging the family physician to foster the mother-infant bond. I explore emerging implications in child mental health, ADHD and ASD; how even during brief interactions of the well-infant and postpartum visits, family physicians can impact the mental development of their little patients in a meaningful way.