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 ...

Child development experts are sounding the alarm on AI video content targeting young children, warning it could impact their ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain ...

New research shines light on how parents who talk more to their infants improve their children's brain development. Scientists used imaging and audio recordings to link early language skills to ...

Columbia researchers have found that babies born to moms who had mild or asymptomatic COVID during pregnancy are normal, based on results from a comprehensive assessment of brain development. The ...

John Spencer receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which ...

The saying, “Don’t sit in front of the TV all day. It will rot your brain,” might not be the overdramatic statement as people once ...