As the planet heats up, the conversation about children and climate change is shifting from distant futures to the wiring of ...

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...

In humans, this network is the seat of social cognition, memory, and perhaps even the sense of self. The DMN is most active ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

Scanning a premature infant's brain shortly after birth to map the location and volume of lesions, small areas of injury in the brain's white matter, may help doctors better predict whether the baby ...

Studies have linked a type of injectable birth control with meningioma, while the manufacturer says the claims are “without merit” Getty The injectable birth control medroxyprogesterone acetate, which ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Maternal gut–immune stress shapes fetal brain development differently in males and females, revealing sex-specific pathways ...