Researchers have scanned the brains of more than 500 babies and young children in order to paint a detailed picture of the ...

Many teachers and parents know neuroscience, the study of how the brain functions and develops, is important for children's ...

Before a person is even born, the brain has undergone intense expansion and growth in its complexity. This dramatic development continues into the first years of childhood. After an early boom ...

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

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

A study has shown how aspects of brain function change with age, revealing that excitatory processes in the brain decrease, while inhibitory processes increase as children get older. The findings are ...

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 ...

Exposure to air pollution was analyzed over two periods: from birth to three years of age and in the ... the potential long-term impact of early-life air pollution exposure on brain connectivity and ...

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 ...

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