“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 ...

I n the first year of life, human babies are wrinkled, fragile, and vulnerable to all kinds of stressors at home and in the ...

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

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

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age 2 showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

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

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.

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...

Infants exposed to gamma-aminobutyric acid-based anesthetics, such as sevoflurane or propofol, before 2 months of age showed faster development of visual brain responses by 2 to 5 months, according to ...

The ’50s parenting practices we now know were terrible for kids’ brains The 1950s promised perfect families with spotless ...