Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

John Spencer receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which ...

PORTLAND, OR – Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child’s developing brain and cause damage to ...

HELPING YOUR CHILD UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE. A LOCAL HOSPITAL IS ONE OF THE ONLY HOSPITALS IN SOUTH FLORIDA OFFERING A PROGRAM TO NEW PARENTS. AFTER HAVING A BABY. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Understanding exactly how the brain develops from birth has confounded scientists for decades, largely because tools to finely measure brain activity have been lacking.

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...