When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

The pivotal importance of early brain development is undeniable. Research shows 85 percent of the brain is developed in the first three years of life, and the number of words a child hears in that ...

Discover the power of early intervention! Learn how timely support for cognitive and emotional development leverages brain ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers evaluated how fundamental environmental supports, encapsulated as a thrive factor (T-factor), during the first year of life ...

“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 ...

BELOIT — When a child is born, doctors and nurses will instruct new parents in how to breast-feed the baby and how to bathe the baby properly. But, what about how to help the child’s brain grow? On ...

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

Invisible wounds of brain injury are not just in soldiers who have been deployed and injured in a war zone. They also occur in children who have been subject to adverse childhood experiences. Studies ...

After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in institutional orphanages across the country. Because of high child-to-caregiver ratios, these children were neglected, ...

New research from a team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has for the first time shown how inflammation in early childhood can affect brain development and contribute to the ...

BELOIT — Jessica Austin has been hired in the new position of director of Early Brain Development in Rock County, and she will help in an effort to make sure area children have the learning skills ...