Introducing young children to multiple languages before age six offers significant long-term brain development benefits. This ...

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Children’s social cognitive development emerges from the dynamic interplay of neural maturation, parental caregiving, and dyadic brain-to-brain synchrony.

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Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

This study links childhood gut microbiome to brain connectivity, highlighting its role in internalizing symptoms like anxiety and depression later in life.

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Reporter Emily Tate Sullivan has been writing about early care and education since 2019. In this essay, she describes how, this year, she began living it.

Temporarily anesthetizing the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development ...

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Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear to show early and stable disruptions in ...