Our understanding of brain development has expanded dramatically in recent decades, revealing how this three-pound organ orchestrates everything from our earliest learning experiences to our most ...

Instead, brain development might best be thought of as a cascading interaction between nature and nurture that unfolds over time. Twenty five years ago, the National Academy of Sciences published ...

Even mild iodine deficiency can limit intellectual development. In the womb or early childhood, deficiency has been shown to impair brain development and in severe cases cause physical ...

The newly gained insights not only provide a deeper understanding of the evolutionary development of our brain but could also help to better comprehend how certain developmental disorders or ...

In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

Dr Danielle Matthews, a developmental psychology specialist from The University of Sheffield, talked to us about baby brain development, language recognition and what we can do to help babies learn.

Mar. 18, 2025 — New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and ...

Although researchers are in the nascent stages of studying the impacts of climate change on brain development, it should come as no surprise that much like cigarette smoke, drugs and toxicants, ...