19, 2024 — Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children ... despite a small brain and an ... Huntington's Disease Gene Also Enhances Early Brain Development and Intelligence ...

To model the pace of brain development across childhood, the study team utilized multi-modal MRI scans from the GUSTO birth cohort. These MRI brain scans were acquired from 549 children at three time ...

War exposure in Syrian refugee children triggered unique DNA methylation changes, marking genes involved in brain development and stress responses.

Recent research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2024 highlights the critical role sleep plays in brain development, particularly in young children. The study found ...

Three decades after Frydman’s discovery and many more insights into TRiC’s mechanism later, the pediatrician had found a mutation in one of TRiC’s components in a child with intellectual ...

Summary: A new study links satellite data with brain imaging to reveal how environmental factors like light pollution, green spaces, and urban density affect the mental health and brain development of ...

A comprehensive study reveals that children exposed to newer antiseizure medications in utero show no differences in ...

Recent research into the neural effects of alcohol and recreational drugs suggests that the developmental trajectory of the adolescent brain may be particularly vulnerable to pharmacological ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

A press release from the NIH announced that its scientific team has defined elements of brain-based visual impairment in children ... hosted by the NEI in partnership with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver ...

Experts convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new ... Nov. 27, 2024 ...