Research indicates that the brain keeps growing until mid to late childhood, then decreases through the early 20s, stabilizes in size for a time, and starts to decrease further around age 40 ...

Early childhood, the period between birth and age 8, is the foundation of a child’s future health, growth, development and achievement at school and throughout life. Experiences during these early ...

Stressful or traumatic experiences in childhood have been shown to negatively impact an individual's health as an adult.

New research shows that early life stress disrupts dopamine signaling, altering social motivation and behavior.

Though tragic, this infamous “natural experiment” has allowed us to learn a great deal about the effects of early-life trauma on the brain ... in institutions. Childhood is the most sensitive ...

Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood ... in early life, there were changes in the brain regions ...

What are the key milestones of early childhood development ... conversation in the development of language structures in the brain: The more conversation kids experienced, the stronger the ...