“This marks a major milestone in our multi-site NIH-funded effort to better understand how factors during pregnancy influence ...

Early life stress may set the stage for long-term digestive problems by disrupting the gut-brain connection. Studies in both ...

The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains and higher IQ ...

The World Bank drives early childhood development globally through financing, policy, and partnerships to boost health, ...

“By age 3 we know about 50% of what we will eventually know as an adult,” said Prof. Charlie Trautmann, psychology. Trautmann is a part of the Early Childhood Development Project led by Prof. John ...

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 ...

Early life stress can affect how the brain and gut work together and may lead to digestive problems later in life ...

Early life stress may lead to digestive issues later in life, driven by changes in the gut and sympathetic nervous systems, ...

A new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University is shedding light on how the brain's wiring in early childhood lays the foundation for attention skills—a key step toward characterizing healthy ...

Recent studies show that even infants as young as 10 months old can display basic forms of deceit. By the time they reach three years, almost all children engage in these playful fabrications. This ...

Stress in early childhood can rewire how a child’s gut and brain communicate, potentially leading to long‑lasting digestive troubles such as abdominal pain, irritable bowel symptoms, and motility ...

Infants and toddlers with unilateral cerebral palsy, which affects the brain's control of muscles on one side of the body, ...