Parents and early educators play an active role in fostering a child's healthy brain development through responsive caregiving, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - but also raised ethical questions ...

Research indicates that activities like dance, martial arts, and team sports significantly enhance cognitive function beyond traditional workouts. The ...

Premature infants who received more skin-to-skin contact while in NICU showed significantly greater brain growth on discharge than preemies who received little or no skin-to-skin contact, based on ...

Children who feel unsafe at home, in school, or in their neighborhood show differences in brain connectivity. A new neuroimaging study published in Psychological Medicine suggests these differences ...

Paying less attention to faces is one of the key markers of autism spectrum disorder. But while researchers have begun to uncover the brain network that supports processing of social stimuli such as ...

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making lights up the entire brain.

Although many children's supplements claim to support immunity, growth, or overall wellbeing, there is little robust scientific evidence that they improve health outcomes ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.

Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.

I was teaching elementary school in the Fall of 1983, and the rumor was that every Mrs. faculty member under the age of 35 was "in the family way" that year. Our teacher’s lounge refrigerator ...

The typical adult needs seven to nine hours of rest each and every night. We all know that sleep is very important, but studies show that most of us aren’t getting what we need. The older we get, the ...