The earliest stages of life are a crucial time for child development and have a particularly important impact on the brain. More than 80% of a child's brain is formed during the first three years of ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are joining scientists at 24 other sites around the country to conduct a comprehensive study aimed at understanding how prenatal ...

Birth order has long been linked to differences in cognition, with firstborn children often outperforming their later-born ...

Cynthia Rogers, MD, visits a baby in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Rogers is helping lead a national study aimed at understanding how prenatal factors and early ...

While the rise in youth mental health problems has been widely appreciated, there remains a lot of debate about what specifically is behind it. Many popular articles and books implicate some more ...

Expanding knowledge of brain and child development, along with growing evidence regarding effective interventions to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families, led the National Academies of ...

The National Institutes of Health will distribute $157 million in 2016 awards to universities across the country for the launch of a seven-year initiative aimed at investigating how environmental ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. Mothers bear much of the ...

Family mealtimes are important for parents and children as a space to communicate, socialize, and build attachment relationships. But it can be difficult for busy parents to balance family and work ...