Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Imagine that you’ve been dropped into an unfamiliar country. People are speaking all around you. But you don’t recognize the sounds or objects surrounding you. You don’t even hear words; all the sounds are mushed together. It is very confusing.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, saddling children of low-income families with slower rates of growth in two key brain structures, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
High levels of family stress in infancy are linked to differences in everyday brain function and anxiety in teenage girls, according to new results of a long-running population study by University of Wisconsin scientists.
Stress may affect brain development in children according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two years ago Richard Davidson challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that emphasize kindness and compassion instead of violence and aggression.
My own research is really interested in how kids think about themselves and other people as members of different social groups, and the kind of information that's salient to them very early in development, and what might give rise to other kinds of categories and distinctions later.
Parents have little access to research on early childhood development, something the Appleton Education Foundation hopes to rectify with this year's Community Education Program.
Babies born at very low birth weights struggle in their early years and a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers suggests that their mothers do, too.
Poor mental health before pregnancy predicts which pregnant women are most likely to have a pregnancy complication and give birth to a low birth-weight baby, a new nationwide survey reveals.
Stressful experiences in early childhood can have long-lasting impacts on kids' health that persist well beyond the resolution of the situation.
