When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

For Our Keiki is a new KHON2 series that provides practical guidance for Hawaiʻi families to support their children’s ...

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 ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

“By age 3 we know about 50% of what we will eventually know as an adult,” said Prof. Charlie Trautmann, psychology. Trautmann is a part of the Early Childhood Development Project led by Prof. John ...

Research at Karlstad University shows that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse life events during ...

A top brain expert reveals the specific dietary boundaries he sets at home to prevent neurological damage and foster peak ...

The 25 number became popular off the back of brain imaging studies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. These studies often tracked changes through childhood and adolescence and showed that the brain ...

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...