When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A ...

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

The shooting, yet another by a young male, raises important questions about the workings of the teenage brain and what drives ...

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 ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...

Mead Johnson Nutrition Hong Kong ("Mead Johnson"), in collaboration with Medical Conscience, hosted a Paediatric Nutrition ...

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 ...

When the germ-free mice were just a handful of days old, the researchers found fewer neurons in their PVN, even when microbes were introduced after birth. That suggests the changes caused by these ...

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 ...

New research links the disorder to abnormal brain development. Nov. 8, 2011— -- A new, small study provides a tantalizing clue to the causes of autism, suggesting that children with the disorder ...