Thousands of companies promising to unlock young children’s brain potential have opened in recent years, drawing in eager ...

Structural brain development during these years enhances learning skills and reasoning abilities—and different life ...

Because optimal brain health and cognitive function are not guaranteed, they are dependent on many factors, including genetics, the environment, healthy development, and daily lifestyle habits.

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones, the ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the ...

physicians and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development. Your Child's Brain is produced by Kennedy Krieger Institute with ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Authors Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, both of the University of Cambridge, suggest that cereal consumption may influence brain development through the gene CPLX3, which is involved ...

Information about a parent’s perception of a child’s gender gives researchers a better sense of the child’s social environment and how it may affect their brain development. The authors used ...

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, ...

In this week's Therapy Thursday, therapist Kaydee Norton with Sunbeam Family Services discusses the importance of early brain development. Norton says brain health starts before a baby is born.