Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

Scientists studying human development are working to improve equipment to learn how babies' brains develop. A team at Virginia Tech is starting a study to follow 80 children for four years.

As your pregnancy progresses, your baby starts to develop simple movement skills like opening and closing their hands in the ...

Your baby experiences a crucial development phase between 6-18 months where hand-to-mouth coordination creates neural pathways essential for spatial awareness and fine motor control. Similar to how ...

The research blends advanced brain imaging with artificial intelligence to shed light on how infants process the world around them. Together, these tools offer a clearer picture of what babies may be ...

From the moment you see that positive pregnancy test through your child’s second birthday, you’re experiencing what experts refer to as the “first 1,000 days”—a critical period for growth and ...

Pregnancy is one of the three Ps (puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause), a time when a person's brain undergoes physical changes due to hormones. - d3sign/Moment RF/Getty Images/File Science has ...

Research shows babies as young as two months old can already categorize what they see, offering fresh insight into early ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

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 ...

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