The environment can become a noninvasive therapeutic approach to bolster white matter health

Those parents you overhear transforming trips to the grocery store into sensory adventures — telling babies too young to babble that broccoli is GREEN, radishes are RED and tangerines are ORANGE — are onto something. Being exposed to a complex and stimulating environment rich with new sights, sounds and a full vocabulary can play a powerful role in strengthening infants’ developing brains.