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*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

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

The department offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in development studies. Development Studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a ...

"What too much screen time leads to is a variety of missed opportunities for learning and development," one of the study's authors tells TIME Limiting kids’ access to digital devices may have more of ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

Development Studies examines the social, economic and political processes that shape human well-being across low- and middle-income settings. Emerging after the Second World War, it brings together ...