Support your child’s early learning with these fun and engaging brain-boosting activities for babies and toddlers! The first two years of life are a crucial time for brain development. During this ...

“This marks a major milestone in our multi-site NIH-funded effort to better understand how factors during pregnancy influence ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much? A new Yale study finds evidence that we do form memories, but can’t ...

Recent studies show that even infants as young as 10 months old can display basic forms of deceit. By the time they reach three years, almost all children engage in these playful fabrications. This ...

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There is growing evidence that breastfeeding improves the brain development of infants. Researchers at Brown University have discovered that breastfeeding alone produces the best results for boosting ...

Researchers at Stanford University played voice recordings of preemies’ mothers reading stories to them to find out whether it affected how their brains developed. The team observed changes in the ...

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Infants and toddlers with unilateral cerebral palsy, which affects the brain's control of muscles on one side of the body, ...