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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Joseph Charter school performs Christmas concert
JCS 6th grade performs
‘The Wizard of Oz’
Steve Tool/Chieftain
Members of Jill Hite’s sixth-grade class pose proudly after a
play performance of “The Wizard of Oz.” The class performed
the play several times as part of a fundraiser for its fi eld trip
later in the school year. With very little help from adults, the
class produced the play and raised more than $500 for their
fi eld trip.
Mothers’ and babies’
brains can work together
as a ‘mega-network’
University of Cambridge
Ellen Morris Bishop
TOP Michelle Homan directs the Joseph Charter School K-3 singers at the Christmas concert last week. The kids
performed classical melodies and contemporary holiday songs that left them smiling and their audience, mostly
parents and family members, enthused.
LEFT The heartwarming K-3 concert at Joseph Charter School included some animated songs, including one about the
Grinch that Stole Christmas. The singers obviously had fun acting out the words and message of the songs.
RIGHT The Grinch song and others inspired some acting and animation, which the performers seemed happy to
provide.
Mothers’ and babies’
brains can work together as
a ‘mega-network’ by syn-
chronising brain waves
when they interact. The
level of connectivity of the
brain waves varies accord-
ing to the mother’s emotional
state: when mothers express
more positive emotions their
brain becomes much more
strongly connected with their
baby’s brain. This may help
the baby to learn and its brain
to develop.
The research, published
in the journal NeuroIm-
age, used a method called
dual electroencephalograhy
(EEG) to look at brain signals
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in both mothers and babies
while they were interacting
with each other. They found
that mothers and babies tend
to synchronise their brain
waves in the frequency of 6-9
hertz, the infant alpha range.
Mothers and babies tend
to spend a lot of time together
in a positive emotional state,
in which their brains are very
connected. The study found
that positive interaction, with
lots of eye contact, enhances
the ability of mother and
infant brains to operate as a
single system. This promotes
effi cient sharing and fl ow of
information between mother
and infant.
“From our previous work,
we know that when the neural
connection between mothers
and babies is strong, babies
are more receptive and ready
to learn from their mothers,”
said Dr Vicky Leong in the
University of Cambridge’s
Department of Psychology,
who led the study. “At this
stage of life, the baby brain
has the ability to change sig-
nifi cantly, and these changes
are driven by the baby’s
experiences. By using a pos-
itive emotional tone during
social interactions, parents
can connect better with their
infants, and stimulate devel-
opment of their baby’s men-
tal capacity.”
The results also sug-
gest that babies of depressed
mothers may show less evi-
dence of learning because
of a weakened neural con-
nection between mother and
infant. Mothers who expe-
rience a persistently low or
negative mental state due to
clinical depression tend to
have less interaction with
their baby. Their speech is
often fl atter in tone, they
make much less eye contact,
and they are less likely to
respond when their baby tries
to get their attention.
“Our emotions literally
change the way that our
brains share information with
others — positive emotions
help us to communicate in a
much more effi cient way,”
said Dr Leong. “Depres-
sion can have a powerfully
negative effect on a parent’s
ability to establish connec-
tions with their baby. All the
social cues that normally fos-
ter connection are less read-
ily available to the child, so
the child doesn’t receive the
optimal emotional input it
needs to thrive.”
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