Music classes for the very youngest children can set them up to one day play an instrument, but experts say the classes can also bring broader cognitive benefits: firing up areas of their developing ...

Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain and cause damage to language ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Excessive screen time in childhood is associated with changes in the brain, particularly in regions involved in attention and ...

A new study reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel 'copies'. These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted ...

In an era dominated by keyboards, voice notes and AI-generated text, one surprisingly powerful brain-boosting habit is ...

Teenagers often sleep less than the recommended amount of time and have significantly different sleep patterns on weekdays and weekends. This discrepancy in sleep time between school and weekends, ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications ...

Air pollution affects more than children's lungs. A paediatrician explains how toxic air can quietly interfere with brain development, attention and learning, and what families and schools can do to ...

While we all know that the food we eat affects how we look (and that research around healthy eating has mainly focused on the link between diet and weight and disease), did you know that what we eat ...