As children grow and develop, they need good nutrition for their brain development.Diet rich in essential nutrients provides them with energy and building blocks for a healthy brain and cognitive ...

AI videos have gotten so good that it can be hard to tell what is real versus fake. And for kids, it's even harder. Doctors ...

Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of ...

Daily screen time in late childhood predicts early adolescent depression. Shorter sleep and white matter changes (cingulum bundle) partially mediate this effect.

The researchers suspected the pathway—known as the social perception pathway—might be functional very early in development.

Dr. Carolina Gubert, another senior author, explained that “these kinds of changes in the hippocampus, as well as other brain ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

When she was born, doctors informed Opal Sandy’s parents that their child would never hear. At the age of 11 months, she had ...

Scientists found that childhood trauma can change DNA and brain development, leaving long-term biological marks.

New Stanford research shows that hearing their mother’s voice helps premature babies strengthen language pathways in the ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.