Experts say an infant’s laughter is an important developmental marker, offering a window into brain development and a child’s ...

If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

CU Boulder researcher Emily Yeo finds that some babies may benefit from more support and resources so they can grow up to lead long, happy and healthy lives In an ideal world, every baby would be born ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Researchers find that growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants' brain activity. Growing up in neighborhoods with more ...

Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the most recent NIH Toolbox, providing the newest nationally standardized ...

Infant sleep patterns and emotional regulation are important for healthy development, but it is challenging to get real-time insights into infant behavior. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

An 8-month-old infant with severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene ...

An eight-month-old infant with rare but severe epilepsy was cured after receiving an experimental gene replacement in a ...