Family conflicts significantly impact a child's brain development, affecting emotional, social, and cognitive skills.

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

UNICEF supports parents and caregivers in Guatemala with training and skills that turn talking, hugging and play into ...

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

As a pediatrician, I know that some of the most transformative gifts for young children don’t require batteries or assembly.

The first few years of a child's life are at a stage of great brain plasticity and neurodevelopment, and form the foundation ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

Smartphones are widely owned by children in America, with a Pew Research Center survey finding that 95% of teens ages 13-17 ...

The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are crucial for brain development. The Reach Out and Read program in SC helps families ...

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...

Tantrums, sulking and meltdowns are demystified in “The Whole-Brain Child,” a webinar on understanding a child’s developing brain, to be held Dec. 15 from noon-1 p.m. North Dakota State University ...

Some children recover better after traumatic brain injury than others, despite appearing similarly to doctors. Looking at the ...