Researchers find that growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants' brain activity. Growing up in neighborhoods with more ...

A new investigation drawing on the ECHO.CA.IL cohorts has examined a class of industrial chemicals that most expectant ...

New data provide further information about how the microbiota affects an infant's neurodevelopment. The results should be interpreted with caution because of the study's small sample size and ...

As every parent knows, an infant's early life is a series of milestones, from logging every development to regular checkups with the pediatrician to monitor body length, head circumference, and weight ...

Children who are too short for their age can suffer reduced cognitive ability arising from differences in brain function as early as six months of age, according to new research from the University of ...

From infancy through middle childhood, cognitive development encompasses a series of milestones by which children acquire increasingly sophisticated means of representing and interacting with the ...

Your gut is home to an ecological community that harbors over 100 trillion microorganisms. Both “good” and potentially harmful microbes begin residing within human intestines shortly after birth to ...

A new study analysing the HMO contents of breastmilk during the infant’s first 12-weeks of life, observes that greater intakes of fucosylated types correlated with higher scores for executive function ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower decision-making and increased anxiety by their teenage years, according to ...