A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry provides evidence that experiencing abuse or neglect during childhood is ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...

Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute recently released their initial data set from Virginia’s long-term child development study. The HEALthy Brain and Child ...

A new study has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in early and mid childhood have weaker connections between key brain regions. The findings highlight the potential impact ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

The first year of life is critical for brain development, with the brain forming new connections at an astonishing rate of one million per second. The caregiver’s ability to interact with their ...

(OsakaWayne Studios/Moment/Getty Images) A new study has uncovered a connection between malfunctions in the brain's waste ...

The City of Birmingham is investing more than $3 million into an early childhood initiative designed to prepare young ...

“By age 3 we know about 50% of what we will eventually know as an adult,” said Prof. Charlie Trautmann, psychology. Trautmann is a part of the Early Childhood Development Project led by Prof. John ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers Károly Mirnics (L) and Zeljka Korade say their newly published review of ...