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Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study Consortium, have announced the first data release from this landmark study, ...

For decades, psychologists have known that children are influenced by the emotional climate of their homes. What is becoming increasingly clear is that this influence may extend beyond behavior and ...

For over a century, neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning the human brain's development from birth to late adulthood. While ...

My daughter was riding one of those little green/yellow plastic bikes around the room and she got stuck between the coffee table and the couch. "Daddy, I'm stuck. Help." My first instinct was to push ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

These images show some of the testing done with newborns as part of the HBCD study. The left side shows a play assessment, which assesses how babies interact with their environment, and the right side ...