Child Development

Poverty and the Developing Brain

Evidence continues to mount that the brains of children living in poverty show tangible harm. Our authors explain the challenges and the necessary steps needed to build a healthier society.

Bullying and the Brain

Bullying—mistreating and dominating others—is harmful in the moment and possibly throughout the rest of a person’s life. Get the basics. Here are the basics.

Losing Face

Experts weigh in on the impact mask-wearing may have on children's education, mental health, and brain development

Our Memories, Our Experiences

The ways the hippocampus grows and how it functions to learn and remember depend greatly on an animal’s life experiences, Dana Grantee Cristina Maria Alberini has found.

A Comprehensive–and Controlled–Look into Adolescent Brain Development

The US national health institutes have begun a massive, long-term study—starting with nearly 12,000 children—to learn how brains grow, and try to pinpoint why some go off-track.

Rethinking Youth Sports

The latest on what we know and don't know about repeated impacts to the head.

How Does the Brain Develop? Grades 9-12

The Abused Brain

What happens to the brain of a child who is abused, neglected, or otherwise maltreated?

Sound Health: Shaping Our Children’s Lives Through Music Engagement

For a second year, the National Institutes of Health and the Kennedy Center for the Arts spent a weekend exploring the connections between music, the brain, and humanity.

Pediatricians’ Group Says Spanking is Ineffective, Potentially Harmful

A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics stresses the harmful impact, and ineffectiveness, of spanking children.