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 ...

National Dairy Council reports that iodine is crucial for brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life, yet ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

The human brain, despite representing only about 2% of total body weight, consumes approximately 20% of the body’s energy resources. This metabolic intensity makes the brain particularly responsive to ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is ...

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

Faulty brain circuits seen in Down syndrome may be caused by the lack of a particular molecule essential for the development ...

The effects of a COVID-19 infection can sometimes persist for months or years after the initial symptoms have gone, but could some of the impact even be transferred to the next generation? Scientists ...

New research reveals that child maltreatment leaves measurable biological “scars” on DNA, altering brain structure and function.