By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A new study shows that whether families can reliably meet basic needs, not just how much they earn, ...

Children whose parents struggle with a steady income show delayed brain development in the first year of life, according to a ...

Machine-learning algorithms can now estimate the "brain age" of infants with unprecedented precision by analyzing electrical brain signals recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). A team led by ...

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC lead investigators Read Montague and Brittany Howell will use a four-year, $2.3 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop ...

There is no rest for a baby's brain - not even in sleep. While infants sleep they are reprocessing what they have learned. Working with researchers from the University of Tübingen, scientists from the ...

Babies' Brain Development Lags In Cash-Crunched Families, Study Shows By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Jan. 9, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A family’s financial difficulties might shape how an ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child’s brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...