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Most disease is correlated with poverty, but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.

People got very excited, there was talk of the Nobel Prize, and Alice really was in a big hurry to try to study all the cases of childhood cancer she could find before they disappeared.

My eyes became glued to the patterns of embroidered roses blooming across my childhood landscape.

It seems that during my childhood, the blooms from my mother's gardens have healed all the way from her halo to the roots on the soles of our feet.

Our goal is to prevent childhood hearing loss across the state of Alaska.

Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.

So many labs around the world are involved in this kind of research, and we now have a really rich and detailed picture of how the living human brain develops, and this picture has radically changed the way we think about human brain development by revealing that it's not all over in early childhood, and instead, the brain continues to develop right throughout adolescence and into the '20s and '30s.

So if you look at gray matter volume, for example, gray matter volume across age from age four to 22 years increases during childhood, which is what you can see on this graph.

Between late childhood and mid-adolescence, there's an improvement, in other words a reduction of errors, in both of these trials, in both of these conditions.

Children in care, who've had a life in care, deserve the right to own and live the memory of their own childhood.

You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your "love map," an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up.

When he sings songs from our childhood, attempting words that not even I could remember, he reminds me of one thing: how little we know about the mind, and how wonderful the unknown must be.

The novelist Richard Ford speaks about a childhood challenge that continues to be something he wrestles with today.

During my childhood, I felt very much Argentinian, but my looks betrayed me at times.

So throughout my childhood, my mother was incarcerated and I didn't have my father because I didn't even learn his first name until I was in the sixth grade.

It can be a simple theme: Write about the most unfortunate experience in your childhood.

He wanted to know everything about my family and my childhood and my hopes and dreams.

See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood that I wasn't ever asked to define myself as any one thing at any point.

PISA has transformed that debate, and pushed early childhood education right at the center of public policy in Germany.

And that's very characteristic of humans and it's called childhood, which is this extended dependence of human children on their family or parents.

So, the still-growing brain in this individual tells us that childhood, which requires an incredible social organization, a very complex social organization, emerged over three million years ago.

And so I begin with a story about my childhood.

We all are products of our childhood experiences.

At age seven, Watson is still kind of in its childhood.

In this talk today, I want to present a different idea for why investing in early childhood education makes sense as a public investment.

It's a different idea, because usually, when people talk about early childhood programs, they talk about all the wonderful benefits for participants in terms of former participants, in preschool, they have better K-12 test scores, better adult earnings.

And that's actually crucial because if we're going to get increased investment in early childhood programs, we need to interest state governments in this.

All I mean is, is that early childhood education can bring more and better jobs to a state and can thereby promote higher per capita earnings for the state's residents.

Now, I think it's fair to say that when people think about state and local economic development, they don't generally think first about what they're doing about childcare and early childhood programs.

My argument is essentially that early childhood programs can do exactly the same thing, create more and better jobs, but in a different way.

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