Preschool years are a period of rapid brain development. By the age of five, a child's brain is approximately 90 percent of its adult size, highlighting the importance of this developmental window in ...

Screen time use by infants, toddlers and preschoolers has exploded over the last decade, concerning experts about the impact of television, tablets and smartphones on these critical years of rapid ...

Raising a child looks different for every generation. Amy Elliott, chief clinical research officer at Avera Research Institute, understands how quickly new science and research can change ideas that ...

New research supports the view that the effects of the pandemic on preschoolers' development are not so dire. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) In a new study published in JAMA ...

When should young children drop their afternoon nap? University of Maryland researchers are looking to better understand why the transition happens. “We know sleep is very good for the brain, and it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which is important for boosting cognition and mental well-being. Good brain health at this age is directly linked to better mental heath, ...

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 ...