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

Have you ever been convinced that you remember being a baby? A moment in a crib, or the taste of a first birthday cake? Chances are, those memories aren’t real. Decades of research suggest that most ...

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

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

Instead, brain development might best be thought of as a cascading interaction between nature and nurture that unfolds over time. Twenty five years ago ... and discuss how early experiences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...