Mesa County Partnership for Children and Families is hosting a free workshop Thursday focused on supporting early childhood ...

The first year of life is critical for brain development, with the brain forming new connections at an astonishing rate of one million per second. The caregiver’s ability to interact with their ...

Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing ...

Research at Karlstad University shows that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse life events during ...

A new study has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in early and mid childhood have weaker connections between key brain regions. The findings highlight the potential impact ...

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 ...

Results indicated that toddlers in the highest screen time category, averaging approximately five hours daily, could ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

A new study has uncovered the ways different types of play are linked to children's social abilities and brain activity. The ...

Reading is more than just a silent activity for kids; it is one of the best methods for developing the brain during childhood ...

The 25 number became popular off the back of brain imaging studies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. These studies often tracked changes through childhood and adolescence and showed that the brain ...

“When it comes to parenting society has its priorities all wrong”, argues psychoanalyst and best selling author Erica Komisar ...