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

Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

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 ...

Infants exposed to gamma-aminobutyric acid-based anesthetics, such as sevoflurane or propofol, before 2 months of age showed faster development of visual brain responses by 2 to 5 months, according to ...

Recent neuroscience research shows that our brain’s organization of the visual world occurs much earlier than previously ...

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 ...

It's a scientific truth many in the field of early childhood development like to parrot: children's brains are like sponges. But getting to see a child's sponge-like learning in action, from the ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child’s brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

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