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 ...

maternal HDP was independently associated with adverse cognitive and language development, with accentuated associations observed in preeclampsia-exposed preterm infants, emphasizing the clinical ...

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 ...

Maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with adverse cognitive and language development in preterm infants at 2 years' corrected age.

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

Longer breastfeeding duration is associated with greater cortical thickness, surface area, and improved fluid cognition in ...

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 ...