The Neurobiology of the Parent-Child Relationship — and What It Teaches Us with Yale Professor Dr. Dylan Gee

Raising Good Humans

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In today’s episode I am joined by Yale neuroscientist Dr. Dylan Gee for a fascinating look at what’s actually happening in our children’s brains when we offer support, warmth, and connection. We delve into the neurobiology and neurobiological mechanisms that underpin parent-child interactions, particularly focusing on emotional development. We also dive into the individual differences in children's needs, the concept of 'safety signals,' and the balance between parental support and fostering independence.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.4	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and I'm here today with Professor Dylan
0:14.9	G from Yale University's Department of Psychology. And I'm so excited for our conversation
0:20.7	today. So we're just going to dive right in because I'm so excited for our conversation today.
0:21.4	So we're just going to dive right in because I'm here with you. And I want you to tell everyone
0:26.0	about your work, but more specifically today's topic, which is the neurobiology and the
0:32.2	neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the parent-child interaction, especially for emotional development.
0:39.5	That's our kind of primary focus today.
0:41.6	Wonderful. And thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk with you about this.
0:45.2	So this is a topic that's really close to my heart. And I think in the lab, one of the things
0:49.7	that we're really trying to understand is how is it that parents play such an important role in children's
0:56.4	emotional development. So we know, and decades and decades of foundational work have shown that
1:02.4	parents play this really essential role in helping kids to learn about the world, to navigate
1:08.2	their emotional worlds, to regulate their emotions. But we haven't
1:12.1	really known how that happens at the level of the brain, at the level of biology. And so our work
1:18.5	is really trying to understand, you know, when a parent is present, when a parent is warm and
1:23.7	responsive and supportive and all these things that we think about as parents. What does that look like in the child's brain?
1:30.5	Okay, so I love this because I think what we do want to know what it looks like in the child's
1:35.6	brain.
1:35.9	And also, what does it really look like?
1:38.2	Because we talk about it all the time.
1:39.7	You're right, how effective, how important it is.
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