A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

An 8-month-old infant with severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene ...

Experts say an infant’s laughter is an important developmental marker, offering a window into brain development and a child’s ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ways to identify children at risk for future ...

If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

We may feel ridiculous whenever we talk to a baby but it turns out that it can help the baby’s brain develop much more ...

A major study suggests that some of the groundwork for brain development may be shaped before birth through a surprising ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between gut microbes, and brain development—offering new clues about ADHD, autism ...

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

The child was one of the first in the world to be treated with gene replacement therapy to restore the function of a crucial ...