A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Family finances and opportunities in a child’s neighborhood account for about 16% of the variability in kids’ brain function ...

The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

Canadian scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a noninvasive brain-monitoring technique could help medical teams predict the future development of premature babies.

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

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 ...

One of the challenges when studying brain development and disease is the limited access to live human brain tissue. Murine models have been extensively used to investigate brain development and ...

Postnatal brain development is important for individual and societal outcomes. We need large-scale cohort studies from diverse populations to generate generalizable insights into the factors that ...

Economic conditions at home and in the local community may play a significant role in children’s development, according to a ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...