While families across South Africa prepare for the festive season and back-to-school shopping, thousands of preschool children face a heartbreaking reality: they'll walk into Grade 1 classrooms in ...

Four major turning points around age nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human ...

Studies have revealed that brain development occurs in five main stages. The first stage, childhood, lasts from birth to ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by their own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

A national study by University of Adelaide researchers is paving the way for more precise diagnosis and treatment for ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. are uncovering ...

Identifying issues early allows parents and doctors to prepare for medical care after birth. And in some cases, doctors can ...

Koerner encourages parents to use “parallel talk” — describing what a child is doing — and “self-talk,” or narrating their ...

Scientists in Japan have pointed out a correlation between higher screen time and more severe attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms—a condition marked by difficulties with attention, ...

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Here’s what the researchers discovered: Longer daily screen time at age 9-10 predicted increased ADHD symptoms two years ...