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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As more children are raised in a digital world, researchers, doctors, and parents are becoming more ...

The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

"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 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, ...

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 ...

The Global South Development studies program, a multidisciplinary social science program, explores the transformation of African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern societies since the 16th ...

A mother’s depression and anxiety from conception through the first year of the baby’s life is associated with negative developmental outcomes through adolescence, according to a study published ...

A 1960’s twin study, conducted in New York City, still attracts attention. In the mid-1960s, the Louise Wise Adoption Agency began placing twins in different adoptive homes. This practice was adopted ...