Child Brain Development

Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. Thi...

New brain research offers insight into the earliest causes of anxiety.

Math problems make more than a few students -and even t...

Imagine what parenting must have been like during the dawn of civilization.

Women gave birth in their caves, surrounded by fam...

Nolan Bushnell once almost destroyed his family’s garage. As a youngster in Utah, he went tooling around with a liquid-fuel rock...

Prompted by “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” the fiercely debated book by El Cerrito High grad Amy Chua, a UC San Diego profes...

On command, Eze Schupfer reads aloud the numbers on a worksheet in front of her: “42, 43, 12, 13.” Then she begins to trace them...