Be grateful you can’t climb inside your baby’s brain. The mind of a baby might seem like a fun place to be–a swirl of light and color and constant touch, where primal needs are promptly met. But there’s another side, one that’s more than just a sensory carnival. All of us come into the world with our own genetic predispositions to psychological ills. Depression, anxiety, the whole panoply of adult woes are woven into our genomes. That may not be surprising to scientists, but new research shows that these conditions can start to express themselves much earlier than we knew–sometimes during…
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