Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

“Early brain development is shaped not only by biology, but by the everyday experiences infants have with their caregivers ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

Some recent studies proposed that consciousness emerges early in development, possibly during the third trimester of ...

An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

In the study, infants who are exposed to more than one language show better attentional control than infants who are exposed to only one language. This means that exposure to bilingual environments ...