TY - JOUR T1 - Neuroscience, Joy, and the Well-Infant Visit That Got Me Thinking JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 80 LP - 83 DO - 10.1370/afm.2013 VL - 15 IS - 1 AU - Tamas Ungar Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/1/80.abstract N2 - 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. ER -