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    • Aggression
    • Anxiety and depression
    • Assisted reproductive technology
    • Attachment
    • Autism
  • -B-

    • Brain
    • Breastfeeding
  • -C-

    • Child care – Early childhood education and care
    • Child nutrition
    • Child obesity
    • Crying behaviour
    • Culture
  • -D-

    • Divorce and separation
  • -E-

    • Emotions
    • Epigenetics
    • Executive functions
  • -F-

    • Father – Paternity
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
  • -G-

    • Gender: early socialization
  • -H-

    • Head Start policy
    • Home visiting
    • Hyperactivity and inattention (ADHD)
  • -I-

    • Immigration
    • Immunization
    • Importance of early childhood development
    • Injury prevention
    • Integrated early childhood development services
  • -L-

    • Language development and literacy
    • Learning disabilities
    • Low income and pregnancy
  • -M-

    • Maltreatment (child)
    • Maternal depression
    • Mental health
  • -N-

    • Numeracy
    • Nutrition – Pregnancy
  • -O-

    • Outdoor play
  • -P-

    • Parental leave
    • Parenting skills
    • Peer relations
    • Physical activity
    • Play
    • Play-based learning
    • Prematurity
    • Preschool programs
    • Prosocial behaviour
  • -R-

    • Resilience
  • -S-

    • School readiness
    • School success
    • Second language
    • Sleeping behaviour
    • Social cognition
    • Social violence
    • Stress and pregnancy (prenatal and perinatal)
  • -T-

    • Technology in early childhood education
    • Temperament
    • Tobacco and pregnancy
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Aggression

Aggression

Anxiety and depression

Anxiety and depression

Attachment

Attachment

Autism

Autism

Brain

Brain

Child nutrition

Child nutrition

Crying behaviour

Crying behaviour

Emotions

Emotions

Epigenetics

Epigenetics

Gender: early socialization

Gender: early socialization

Hyperactivity and inattention (ADHD)

Hyperactivity and inattention (ADHD)

Mental health

Mental health

Peer relations

Peer relations

Prosocial behaviour

Prosocial behaviour

Resilience

Resilience

Sleeping behaviour

Sleeping behaviour

Temperament

Temperament

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Introduction Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent childhood neuropsychiatric condition, estimated to affect 5%-10% of school-age children worldwide.1 Because of...

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Introduction Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent childhood neuropsychiatric condition, estimated to affect 5%-10% of school-age children worldwide.1 Because of...

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