There's a lot going on in your baby's brain before age 5. Here's why experts call it a critical time for setting up a child's ...

Parents have long intuitively known that music holds more than mere entertainment value for their little ones. Now, ...

A clinical trial published Sept. 9 in Anesthesiology found no evidence that brief exposure to inhaled anesthesia harms brain development in infants and young children. Researchers from Seoul National ...

Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans.

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies ...

Mice bred in a germ-free environment were compared to those bred in an environment colonized with germs, and the latter were ...

It’s easy to think that a few minutes less sleep won’t make much difference. But research shows that, during adolescence, ...

When it comes to pregnancy and early childhood, one of the biggest concerns for parents is ensuring healthy development of ...

When we think of child abuse, physical violence or emotional cruelty often comes to mind first. However, the most common form of maltreatment is actually much quieter: neglect.

Talk about thinking small: researchers at Harvard University have devised a new way to implant flexible bioelectronic devices in the embryos of frogs, mice, and lizards, enabling them to monitor brain ...