Understanding that relationship better is crucial to learn how to keep young children and teenagers safe as they grow up.

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Sound machines and “sleep sounds” are often marketed as a cure for restless nights, but new research suggests they may ...

Know how poor sleep and vitamin D deficiency in children can impact brain growth, immunity, focus, behavior, and long-term ...

Procrastination, the tendency to unnecessarily delay or put off tasks even if this will have negative consequences, is a common behavior for many people. While occasionally delaying or putting off ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

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

The research blends advanced brain imaging with artificial intelligence to shed light on how infants process the world around them. Together, these tools offer a clearer picture of what babies may be ...

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems ...