Child Health & Development

Miniature “human brains” have been grown in a lab in a feat scientists hope will transform the understanding of neurological dis...

Dr. Peter Huttenlocher, a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist whose innovative research counting billions of brain synapse...

The expansion of the diagnosis of ADHD among children is driven not by a hitherto unknown medical condition, but the cultural re...

We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now res...

Placing healthy babies on their backs to sleep reduces the risk of SIDS and takes precedent over concerns about positional plagi...

An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvement...