Beyond protecting against infections and supporting healthy growth, breastfeeding may quietly shape how a child thinks, ...

Is America getting dumber? That’s the burning question after a new study reveals a troubling trend: American IQ scores have dropped across most cognitive domains. This latest finding, which draws ...

Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds. While ...

Breastfeeding at six months was linked to higher IQ, better reading and math skills, and improved conversational abilities in ...

A new study of how a baby babbles, plays and interacts can help predict their cognitive abilities decades later, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study, published in the journal PNAS.

A new study has shown that brief exposure to inhaled anesthesia does not pose risk for children. This is good news for ...

By design, the average intelligence quotient (IQ) is 100 for all people, with scores that assess your ability to think, ...

It's a well-known fact that fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in children is caused by mothers who drink during ...