A child’s blood pressure may be influenced by exposure to air pollution before and shortly after birth, according to a new study from the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes ...
The development of a child begins during pregnancy, when prenatal environmental factors and genetic influences interact to ...
Sending children to childcare outside the home may not significantly affect children’s mental health, according to a new study funded by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) ...
While the rise in youth mental health problems has been widely appreciated, there remains a lot of debate about what specifically is behind it. Many popular articles and books implicate some more ...
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In addition, genetic and environmental influences on child development are often correlated, which makes the task of teasing them apart challenging. For example, highly anxious parents may transmit ...
Catherine Draper receives or has received funding from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the South African Medical Research Council, the Jacobs Foundation, and the European ...