In preschool years, children absorb what they see on screens like sponges. Their brains develop rapidly, and what they watch ...

From structural changes in the brain to shifts in stress hormones and the invisible burden of “mental load,” research ...

Children’s growth in the first two years of life significantly influences their pubertal growth and adult height, but not ...

Growth patterns during the first two years of a child's life may shape pubertal growth and adult height, but have little ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus or a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy have higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure than children born to mothers without ...

The research, published in Nature Human Behavior, analyzed MRI scans from over 1,000 children to map how different brain ...

Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report.

These factors were accounted for in the analysis, strengthening the link between avocado consumption and lower food allergy ...

Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers have now analyzed the genetic changes of ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.