Can babies train their brains?

Yes – provided they get the right stimuli. Child psychiatrist Giovanni Cioni, a top European researcher in the field, used the right words to convince us: “The environment is the best drug for our brains”. Amazing as it may seems, specialists can now treat motion impairment before a baby starts to walk – or language impairment before an infant even speaks. “Psychomotor retardation is not a fatality”, Cioni concluded.