Children from lower-income families and who greater adversity develop their first permanent molars before their peers with less stressful backgrounds.
Disregarding lab animals' circadian rhythms can hamper reproducibility, validity, and reliability of research, researchers say.
Higher sugar diets during childhood increase the risk for obesity, cognitive impairments, and attention deficits as adults, a new study reports.
The resting brain repeatedly and rapidly replays faster memories of what a person has recently learned and practiced. The more a person replays the memory during rest, the better they become during subsequent sessions where they practice their newly learned skill.
Discontinuing an education in math after age 16 can be disadvantageous for cognitive development, a new study reports. Those who stopped studying math at age 16 had lower levels of a chemical associated with brain plasticity in areas of the brain associated with cognitive function.
Bilingualism in children on the autism spectrum partly makes up for deficits in theory of mind and executive function, a new study reports.
Vulnerable children who received emotionally supportive and stimulating learning in the first five years of life had significant changes in brain structure during mid-life.
People with myopia appear to have delayed circadian rhythms and lower production of melatonin in the brain compared to those without the visual problem.
In-person interactions strengthen neural signals related to facial recognition.
Neuroimaging study reveals a biological deficit in some children with dyslexia that impairs phonological decoding.
By three months, babies are already enlisting the hippocampus to help recognize and learn patterns, researchers report.
Children show improved ability in their math skills when they are trained to practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks.
