Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together. Reading aloud to children can be an accessible ...

A new UC San Diego study strengthens the growing body of evidence that marijuana use impacts adolescent brain development.

Researchers from University of California San Diego have found that teenagers who begin using cannabis show slower gains in ...

Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing brains. New research from cognitive neuroscientists provides a clear answer. The ...

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Horvath pointed out that for over a century, each generation had outperformed the previous one on measures of cognitive ...

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At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function—a set of ...

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Children who survive severe malaria can experience cognitive impairment for many years after the infection, according to new ...