Key Takeaways Financial matters play a crucial role in a child’s brain developmentFamily finances and neighborhood ...

A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

We may feel ridiculous whenever we talk to a baby but it turns out that it can help the baby’s brain develop much more ...

Cerebral asymmetry, fundamental to various cognitive functions, is often disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders. While brain growth has been extensively studied, the maturation of brain asymmetry in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Canadian school boards are suing social media giants for nearly ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you’ll inevitably stumble across the line: “Your frontal lobe isn’t fully developed yet.” It’s become neuroscience’s go-to explanation for bad ...

An influential hypothesis in neuroscience is that the brain may operate near criticality, a transition zone between subcritical dynamics, associated with excessive inhibition, and super-critical ...