Child Health & Development

High conflict between parents can affect children’s brain development and interfere with their ability to learn, a leading child...

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important t...

Three million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents w...

She can barely talk, but 21-month-old Zahlee Robinson has no problems with her iPad. With sisters Chloee, 4, and Sophee, 5, she ...

Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shi...

Letting babies “cry it out” is an idea that has been around since at least the 1880s when the field of medicine was in a hullaba...