Nurturing a healthy mind: doing what matters most for your child’s developing brain

Nurturing a Healthy Mind ’translates’ for parents what neuroscience is telling us about the development of a child’s mind from birth to pre-pubescence. It details the development of the brain from infancy to the early school years and how this impacts on the everyday realities of raising healthy children.

Michael C. Nagel PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he teaches and researches in the areas of human development, educational psychology, behavior and learning. Dr Nagel has written a number of books and articles related to neurological development in children and has delivered over 200 workshops and seminars for parents and teachers nationally and internationally. Dr Nagel is also a member of the prestigious International Neuropsychological Society and a feature writer for the Child series of magazines, which offers parenting advice to more than one million Australian readers.