Child Development News
June 12, 2025
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May 30, 2025 — Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, ...
May 27, 2025 — A new study reveals a concerning decline in self-reported mental health among mothers in the United States between 2016 and 2023. The study also found modest but measurable declines in self-reported physical health during the same ...
May 27, 2025 — Becoming a new mother brings more than just joyful chaos it delivers a profound and persistent sleep shock. A new study reveals that first-time moms lose not just total sleep, but crucial uninterrupted sleep, especially in the first week postpartum. ...
May 28, 2025 — Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say ...
May 1, 2025 — Common mental health conditions are more closely related to people's personalities than previously thought, a study suggests. Personality traits explain about a quarter of the overall risk of mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and ...
May 28, 2025 — Parental warmth and affection in early childhood can have life-long physical and mental health benefits for children, and new research points to an important underlying process: children's sense of ...
May 27, 2025 — The U.S. is facing a maternal health crisis with higher rates of maternal mortality than any other high-income country. Social and economic factors, including income, are recognized determinants of maternal morbidity and mortality. In addition, more ...
May 27, 2025 — How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more ...
May 22, 2025 — A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found ...
May 21, 2025 — There's good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy -- a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their children. ...
May 20, 2025 — Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new ...
May 14, 2025 — A recent study reveals that the average duration of ADHD medication for children and adolescents is more than three years. However, reliable, controlled data on the safety of marketed ADHD medicines ...
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May 21, 2025 — A new study confirms that children of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology compared to ...
May 19, 2025 — Unique Danish longitudinal study with over 136,000 measurements reveals the connection between pubertal development and weight throughout ...
May 14, 2025 — Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, and it is even more the case for those with ...
May 14, 2025 — A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young ...
May 14, 2025 — Postpartum maternal mental health and mother-to-infant bonding are well-established as critical factors in a child's psychosocial development. However, few studies have explored the combined impact ...
May 13, 2025 — As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, founded by Nationwide ...
May 13, 2025 — Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal ...
May 12, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified distinct mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Drawing parallels with human psychology, the study provides compelling ...
May 5, 2025 — Getting a timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge, but new research shows that how young adults, and potentially children, ...
May 9, 2025 — Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...
Earlier Headlines
May 8, 2025 — Music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in children who have suffered significant brain injuries, according to new ...
May 7, 2025 — Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new ...
May 7, 2025 — A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death ...
May 6, 2025 — A study found that targeted coaching for caregivers of infants as young as 8 months significantly enhances babies' communication and cognitive ...
May 5, 2025 — Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods -- areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, and lower access to community resources -- are at risk of developing depression, and new ...
May 5, 2025 — Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our ...
May 5, 2025 — The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in ...
May 5, 2025 — Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...
May 5, 2025 — One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health conditions when it comes to social media -- ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Childhood trauma significantly increases the likelihood of engaging in harmful alcohol consumption, smoking and illicit drug use, by the age of ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — BU researchers develop a brain-inspired algorithm that can help people with hearing loss pick out conversations in noisy, crowded ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A new study by developmental scientists offers the first evidence that infants as young as 15 months can identify an object they have learned about from listening to language -- even if the object ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped ...
Apr. 19, 2025 — Five-year-olds exposed to paternal depression are more likely to have behavioral issues in grade school, researchers ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Affectionate mothering in childhood may have a lasting impact on important personality traits, potentially influencing life outcomes such as educational achievement, economic success, and health and ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss, finds a new study by ...
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Non-Inherited Genes Affect Children's Development
- Losing a Parent May Increase Children's Risk of Being Bullied
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Neighborhood Stress May Impact Kids' Brains -- And Increase Depression Risk
- Children as Young as Five Can Navigate a 'tiny Town'
- How Is Handedness Linked to Neurological Disorders?
- Spanking and Other Physical Discipline Lead to Exclusively Negative Outcomes for Children in Low And Middle-Income Countries
- Teens With Mental Health Conditions Use Social Media Differently Than Their Peers, Study Suggests
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Children's Reading and Writing Develop Better When They Are Trained in Handwriting
- Study Links Childhood Trauma to Increased Substance Use and Unexpected Effects on Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in Adolescents
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Advancing AI for Diverse Applications in Manufacturing, Business and Education
- Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Adolescents Who Sleep Longer Perform Better at Cognitive Tasks
- Listeners Use Gestures to Predict Upcoming Words
Monday, April 21, 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Childhood Experiences Shape the Brain's White Matter With Cognitive Effects Seen Years Later
- Does Teamwork Fulfill the Goal of Project-Based Learning?
- First Insights Into How Excitatory and Inhibitory Brain Signals Change as People Age Using Wearable Scanner
- Perceiving One's Own Body: Babies Sense Their Heartbeat and Breathing
- Exposure to Air Pollution May Harm Brain Health of Older Adults
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Successful Therapy Confirmed for Newborns With the Fatal Metabolic Disorder MoCD Type A
- Common Phrases, Not Fancy Words, Make You Sound More Fluent in a Foreign Language
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Exposure to Air Pollution in Childhood Is Associated With Reduced Brain Connectivity
- An Immune Cell May Explain How Maternal Inflammation Causes Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Monday, March 31, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- How Family Background Can Help Lead to Athletic Success
- Insomniac Fruit Fly Mutants Show Enhanced Memory Despite Severe Sleep Loss
- Why Don't We Remember Being a Baby? New Study Provides Clues
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- To the Brain, Esperanto and Klingon Appear the Same as English or Mandarin
- When Did Human Language Emerge?
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study Reveals Brain's Flexible Foundation from Birth
- New AI Model Analyzes Full Night of Sleep With High Accuracy in Largest Study of Its Kind
Friday, March 14, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Vocal Changes in Birds May Predict Age-Related Disorders in People, Study Finds
- Do You See What I See?
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- More Than Marks: How Wellbeing Shapes Academic Success
- Children Who Lack Fish in Their Diets Are Less Sociable and Kind, Study Finds
- Good Parenting Helps, but Has Limits Under Major Deprivation
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Study Pinpoints the Impact of Prenatal Stress Across 27 Weeks of Pregnancy
- What's in a Label? It's Different for Boys Vs. Girls, New Study of Parents Finds
- Limiting Screen Time Protects Children's Mental Health
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Does Getting ADHD Drugs Via Telehealth Increase Addiction Risk?
- For Some, Childhood Adversity Can Promote Resilience to Anxiety Disorders
Monday, March 3, 2025
- A Third of Children Worldwide Forecast to Be Obese or Overweight by 2050
- It's Not Just What You Say -- It's Also How You Say It
Friday, February 28, 2025
- Researchers Uncover Blood Metabolites That May Influence Early Childhood Development
- How Many Languages Can You Learn at the Same Time? -- Ghanaian Babies Grow Up Speaking Two to Six Languages
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Associative Learning: Primary School Children Outperform All Other Age Groups
- Improving Relationships Between Dads and Daughters... It's a Walk in the Park
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Screening and Treating Maternal Psychological Health Key to Improving Cardiovascular Health
- We Need a New Definition of Dyslexia, Research Says
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Child ADHD Risk Linked to Mother's Use of Acetaminophen
- Another Way Longer Paternity Leaves Help New Parents
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Promising Results from First Prenatal Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Like Human Brains, Large Language Models Reason About Diverse Data in a General Way
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Lack of Discussion Drives Traditional Gender Roles in Parenthood
- Group Childcare Positively Affects Toddler Development
- Study Maps New Brain Regions Behind Intended Speech
- The Complicated Question of How We Determine Who Has an Accent
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- More Sunshine as a Baby Linked to Less Disease Activity for Children With MS
- Adults Can Learn Absolute Pitch: New Research Challenges Long-Held Musical Belief
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Breakthrough in Childhood Brain Cancer Research Could Heal Treatment-Resistant Tumors, Keep Them in Remission
- Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Could Leave Traces in the Placenta That Could Affect the Baby's Development
- Music Can Touch the Heart, Even Inside the Womb
Monday, February 3, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- COVID Lockdowns Disrupted a Crucial Social Skill Among Preschoolers, Trailblazing Study Finds
- The Benefits of Speaking Multiple Languages
- Guided Self-Help Makes Treating Children With Obesity Easier and More Affordable
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Towards a New Generation of Human-Inspired Language Models
- Innovative One-Minute Video Game Boasts 80% Success Rate in Diagnosing Autism
- Largest Study Ever Done on Cannabis and Brain Function Finds Impact on Working Memory
Monday, January 27, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Researchers Track Sharp Increase in Diagnoses for Sedative, Hypnotic and Anxiety Use Disorder in Young Adults
- Adults Diagnosed With ADHD May Have Reduced Life Expectancies
- Significant Rise in Mental Health Admissions for Young People in Last Decade
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Your Stroke Risk Might Be Higher If Your Parents Divorced During Your Childhood
- Childhood Epilepsy May Predispose to Memory Disorders Later in Life