Having conversations with your child can help boost brain development and the conversations between parent and child seem to hit different.

Scientists studying human development are working to improve equipment to learn how babies' brains develop. A team at ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Children who spent a lot of time on screens before the age of two showed changes in brain development that were later linked ...

The incidence of pre-term birth is on the rise globally due to a slew of unknown reasons, although some suggest that psychological stressors, such as chronic stress, unstable housing, and poor ...

June 14, 2012 — A longitudinal imaging study has showed that infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with a subsequent ASD diagnosis exhibited abnormal development of white matter in ...

A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports observed that maternal heart rate variability (mHRV) at three months postpartum is associated with infant neurophysiology and maternal mental ...