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

New research has made a striking link between a mother’s exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy and the shape of her child’s brain at age five. The findings offer no conclusion as to whether ...

The first years of our lives are critical when it comes to brain development and cognition. But reading books and learning times tables can only go so far when driving this cognitive development. Our ...

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

Luby is an infant/preschool psychiatrist clinician researcher at Washington University School of Medicine. Barch is a clinical scientist researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. The New York ...

Prof. Sam Wass, Dr. Gemma Goldenberg and Martin Ellory explore the impact of digital overload and unpick why scientists are ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

That overwhelming work deadline or financial worry isn’t just affecting your mood and sleep. Your stress might actually be altering your child’s developing nervous system through biological pathways ...

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The Feihe Pediatric Brain Development Research Initiative at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital aims to improve the outlook for children everywhere by gaining a ...