The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Have you ever wondered why your earliest childhood memories begin around age three or four, with everything before that seemingly lost to time? A pioneering study from Yale University has uncovered ...

Scripps Research scientists find that certain gut bacteria are essential for building immune defenses during infancy, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - By the age of 5, most triplets are on par with their peers in mental and emotional development, but those born at the lowest weights may still lag behind, according to a ...

Music and singing are some of the most common forms of social interaction and play during early childhood. Caregivers all over the world sing to their infants to engage or soothe them. Seemingly ...

Antibiotics are powerful treatments that have saved countless lives over the course of decades. New findings from Scripps ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Are you interested in catching your baby in the act of discovering their ability to influence the world? If so, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) researchers are calling on ...