The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

"Mom brain" and "pregnancy brain" are colloquial terms used to describe observable cognitive changes like forgetfulness and mental fog that are often reported during pregnancy and postpartum periods.

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

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

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

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from ...

New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

A plume of red, a searing pain and the sounds of summer—these are fragments of my earliest memory, when I stepped on a glass shard in a Toronto splash park at six or seven years old. I don’t remember ...