Within the first year of life, the brain triples in size, reaching 90% of its adult size by age six. In this week's Therapy Thursday, therapist Kaydee Norton with Sunbeam Family Services discusses the ...

Early childhood educators and their advocates often talk about the crucial development that happens after a baby is born through age 5. What is happening to a baby's brain that makes these earliest ...

Karolina Klinker is the program director of Reach Out and Read Georgia, an organization that partners with pediatricians, libraries and departments of public health to give books and guidance to ...

WHO-developed tool, which measures cognitive, language, motor, and socio-emotional skills in children up to 36 months old, was demonstrated in Karachi.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered that an immunosuppressive drug affects microglia, the resident immune ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...

New research suggests that hormones before birth may have played a role in the development of the human brain.

Meeting basic needs may shape brain development through factors such as nutrition and housing stability, as well as through caregivers' time, stress levels, and capacity to engage in developmentally ...

The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...