Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Stress may affect brain development in children according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How does childhood environment shape the human brain? Can caregiver abuse and neglect - as well as nurturing - promote behaviors and reaction patterns that last a lifetime?
Stressful experiences in early childhood can have long-lasting impacts on kids' health that persist well beyond the resolution of the situation.
As many parents discover, the minds of young children absorb information like sponges and their brain development seems to occur at incredible speed.
During the last decade, many American families have opened their hearts and homes to children adopted from Eastern European orphanages.
