Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing brains. New research from cognitive neuroscientists provides a clear answer. The ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers evaluated how fundamental environmental supports, encapsulated as a thrive factor (T-factor), during the first year of life ...

How much of your cognitive ability is shaped by your genetic inheritance compared to the environment you grow up in? A new ...

Children exposed to open-fire cooking in developing countries experience difficulty with memory, problem-solving and social skills. Research in the past decade has identified numerous health risks to ...

Children who grow up in stressful environments often have elevated levels of "the stress hormone” cortisol, which can impair cognitive development. New research shows that some children growing up ...

Agnieszka Jaroslawska receives funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC). Cognitive difficulties are very common in children from impoverished backgrounds, putting them at risk of educational ...

Most of the time, we think about healthy eating in terms of foods that give us energy and won’t cause cancer or diabetes or some other future disease. Yet there are many other aspects of food and ...