India, Oct. 14 -- More than one in five adults in the United States experience mental illness each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Mental health challenges also affect children and adolescents, with more than one in seven young people aged 6-17 experiencing a mental health disorder.

Additionally, half of all lifetime mental illnesses begin by age 14, while 75% emerge by age 24.

Psychologists have long emphasised the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping mental health and emotional well-being later in life.

Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame suggests that positive parenting during early childhood may be associated with stronger brain responses to rewards thro...