Melbourne researchers have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development, shedding new ...

A $46 million grant from a new autism research initiative, Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA), is turbocharging ...

The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being. For instance, past studies have found that a family's socioeconomic status ...

Researchers at QIMR Berghofer have developed a computer-based "growth chart" that could potentially transform the way pediatricians monitor child brain health and allow for earlier identification of ...

New research has given the clearest ever picture of young children's developing brains, using a wearable brain scanner to map electrical brain activity. The work opens up new possibilities for ...

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 ...

Taking a long time to fall asleep during pregnancy is associated with slightly lower offspring intelligence scores at age four. New research points to specific metabolic chemicals in the blood that ...

Youth with behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from Yale Child Study Center (YCSC). Their brains appear to get stuck in states with ...

The research on learning and memory shows that learning is possible and memory can be enhanced across the lifespan, unless the brain is compromised by disease or injury, and even then there is more ...