Prenatal exposure to PM2.5 and black carbon is linked to lower infant cognitive scores. Eye-tracking shows poorer memory, with boys being more vulnerable.

New brain imaging research reveals that by 10 months old, infants are already beginning to understand verbs, before they even say their first words. In the first study to directly test infants' ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously ...

A new study shows that whether families can reliably meet basic needs, not just how much they earn, may shape infants’ brain development as early as the first year of life. Study: Income insufficiency ...

Despite these constraints, the investigators concluded that the results reinforce current perinatal HIV treatment ...

Recent neuroscience research shows that our brain’s organization of the visual world occurs much earlier than previously ...

The research blends advanced brain imaging with artificial intelligence to shed light on how infants process the world around them. Together, these tools offer a clearer picture of what babies may be ...

Early adversity is powerful, but given proper support and intervention, the brain’s capacity for change is too. Measurement, ...

Infants whose parents reported insufficient income showed delayed brain development in the first year of life. Approximately 72% of parents reported enrollment in public insurance; nearly 60% earned ...

Child development experts and organizations give advice to parents looking for the best toys for their kids based on ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorise distinct objects in their brains – much earlier than previously ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile amnesia") and improves memory in mice, suggesting that microglia may ...