Caregivers celebrate many milestones between a baby's birth and their first birthday. During these 12 months, many infants go from being unable to support their head to crawling and standing, and from ...

Danae Dinkel receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. When people set personal fitness goals and establish their physical exercise routines, there’s a group of cuddly individuals that ...

New research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

A team of investigators from six universities across the U.S. reports that an intervention designed to reduce poverty had a direct impact on children's brain development. After one year of monthly ...

Background: Associations of maternal leisure time physical activity with birth size are inconsistent. Roles of infant sex and maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) in these associations have not ...

Objective To examine the relationship between postpartum physical activity and maternal postnatal cardiometabolic health, breastfeeding, injury, and infant growth and development. Design Systematic ...

Through the Infant Development Project, researchers in the Interdisciplinary Lab for Social Development explored how early brain activity relates to the flexibility of infants’ social interactions and ...