This could be pivotal to helping people of all ages.

WHO-developed tool, which measures cognitive, language, motor, and socio-emotional skills in children up to 36 months old, was demonstrated in Karachi.

The first year of life is critical for brain development, with the brain forming new connections at an astonishing rate of one million per second. The caregiver’s ability to interact with their ...

Early childhood curriculum strengthens music skills that support reading achievement I have been BLOWN away by what the ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

The prenatal period is a critical window for brain development, yet few studies have examined the impact of air pollution ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

A new study has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in early and mid childhood have weaker connections between key brain regions. The findings highlight the potential impact ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers Károly Mirnics (L) and Zeljka Korade say their newly published review of suspected connections between commonly prescribed drugs and childhood brain ...

Air pollution may seem like a daily nuisance, but exposure during pregnancy and early childhood can have lasting effects.