Brain scans suggest ADHD-related connectivity is distinct from the networks associated with basic attention skills in nine- ...

Understanding Child Brain Development: In the current digital era, many parents mistakenly think that providing their children with smartphones or expensive toys is enough for their growth. However, ...

Researchers recently examined whether blinking frequency in young children is linked to the development of brain skills ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — For more than a decade, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have tracked the health ...

Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) variability reflects meaningful brain activity, yet its structural and biological correlates during early development remain unknown. Using longitudinal ...

Children as young as 4 with a higher body mass index (BMI) show differences in several brain regions involved in reward, ...

Children’s blinking patterns revealed surprising links to flexible thinking and activity in a key region of the developing brain.

In children aged four to seven years, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with structural features of brain regions involved in taste perception and processing of reward-related signals.

Luby is an infant/preschool psychiatrist clinician researcher at Washington University School of Medicine. Barch is a clinical scientist researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. The New York ...

The bond between parents and children shapes much of a child’s development. When drug use enters this dynamic, it can profoundly alter not just family emotions but how children perceive their world.

A growing body of research suggests that a once-beloved childhood hobby, now increasingly falling by the wayside, is linked ...