Parents have long intuitively known that music holds more than mere entertainment value for their little ones. Now, scientific research confirms this parental wisdom, establishing music as a powerful ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from ...

Children whose parents struggle with a steady income show delayed brain development in the first year of life, according to a ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

Robert Dorn, a Davis psychiatrist who devoted his career to understanding and treating mental health problems that originate in the earliest years of life, has given $1 million to support infant ...

Researchers identify specific psychosocial factors that strongly correlate with altered brain development within the first ...

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...