Machine-learning algorithms can now estimate the "brain age" of infants with unprecedented precision by analyzing electrical ...

A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found ...

Humans are by nature social creatures, far more so than other primates. Our desire to be accepted by our in-groups is ...

The Abecedarian Project, a decades-long research project that has followed Black children through adulthood, has found that ...

Early childhood development is a vital foundation for building healthy communities and a thriving nation. Their members' ...

Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life ...

Infants usually sleep between 16 and 18 hours a day, children (grades 1 through 12) usually need about nine-and-a-half hours ...

A new study by Concordia researchers published in the journal Frontiers in Developmental Psychology examines the emergence of ...

It is considered a barometer for the overall welfare of a community (Gonzales and Gilleskie 2017). A high IMR in a region is ...

Shuttle-based therapies are under active development for an array of brain conditions. “It’s now abundantly clear that we can ...

The ethics and impacts of electronic device use by toddlers will be discussed at the Blue Hill Public Library on Thursday, ...

Recently, in her address to the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Health, Anupriya Patel, highlighted India’s progress ...