Recent findings published in Science Advances provide new evidence regarding the long-term cognitive effects of consuming ...

Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ...

The first major finding is that while most cognitive skills in puppies develop surprisingly early, they develop independently ...

Children from homes that experience persistent poverty are more likely to have their cognitive development affected than children in better off homes, reveals new research. Children from homes that ...

New research indicates that identifying children as having high cognitive ability at a young age is often an unreliable predictor of their future intellectual performance. The study found that ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...

Previous studies indicate an increased risk for neuropsychological difficulties in young children prenatally exposed to opioids and polysubstances, but longitudinal information is scarce. The present ...

Children who grow up in stressful environments often have elevated levels of "the stress hormone” cortisol, which can impair cognitive development. New research shows that some children growing up ...

On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University ...