Development Studies examines the social, economic and political processes that shape human well-being across low- and middle-income settings. Emerging after the Second World War, it brings together ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

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

Postnatal brain development is important for individual and societal outcomes. We need large-scale cohort studies from diverse populations to generate generalizable insights into the factors that ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. Mothers bear much of the ...

A Singapore study tracking 328 mother-child pairs has found two distinct pathways linking maternal mental health to child outcomes at age four. The research from A*STAR Institute for Human Development ...