When does childhood end? That's the question international researchers are asking as they chart age cut-offs for paediatric services...

This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...

What really matters in caring for babies may be different than commonly thought, says Lehigh University researcher Susan S. Woodhouse, an...

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...

Ever intrigued by the concept of laughter as alliance and power, I was interested to read this recent study that showed babies can detect...

Humans are unusual in that women go through menopause and stop reproducing long before reaching the end of their life expectancy. This is...

Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. ...

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,...

Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows,...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression and these rates are on the rise....

The professional youth field is very focused on the idea of low self-esteem being a driver of so many of young people's problems. Young...

Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite...

Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to...

A huge gap in thinking about child development is peer-to-peer relationships. Humans are pack animals and children immediately identify...

In lectures on child development I stress the role of gene-parent interactions in shaping a child's behavior. This is an interesting...

Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school...