Navigating early developmental care for newborns and toddlers can be daunting for parents, but catching challenges early can be a gamechanger.

Early adversity weakens children's brain wiring, but strong relationships help protect thinking and learning abilities.

A child’s brain develops rapidly in the first five years of life. Scientists estimate that over a million new brain ...

A study by Mass General Brigham involving over 9,000 participants found that early life adversity is linked to weaker white ...

The Early Childhood Coalition has a passion – promoting healthy growth and development in young children ages 0-5 years old – and they’re not slowing down. The nonprofit serves families through ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that as children age, excitatory brain activity decreases while inhibitory activity ...

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.

A new study has shown how aspects of brain function change with age, revealing that excitatory processes in the brain ...

Exposure to air pollution was analyzed over two periods: from birth to three years of age and in the ... the potential ...

Investigators have linked difficult early life experiences with reduced quality and quantity of the white matter communication highways throughout the adolescent brain. This reduced connectivity is ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

the researchers propose redefining early-life stress as “early-life adversity” to better encompass the diverse experiences that can impact brain development, even those not traditionally perceived as ...