The 25 number became popular off the back of brain imaging studies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. These studies often tracked changes through childhood and adolescence and showed that the brain ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers evaluated how fundamental environmental supports, encapsulated as a thrive factor (T-factor), during the first year of life ...

An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

A healthy diet in early pregnancy supports the child's motor development at the age of 5-6 years. Higher maternal body fat mass, on the other hand, has an adverse effect on the child's motor ...

Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in ...

A long-term study shows how screen time in babies may alter brain development and increase vulnerability to anxiety years ...

Early-onset preeclampsia was associated with increased risk for delayed early-childhood development in the domain of ...

Accelerated aging, found more common in recent birth cohort, was associated with increased incidence of early-onset solid tumors, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer ...