A new longitudinal study found that individuals who were maltreated as children tended to have poorer performance on cognitive tasks assessing general intelligence, abstract visual reasoning, ...

People diagnosed with autism in early childhood may have genetic and developmental differences from those diagnosed in late childhood and onwards. This is the finding of researchers from the ...

A child’s early gut microbiome may influence their risk of developing depression, anxiety or other internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, according to a new UCLA Health study. The effect appears ...

Every working adult was once a playing child. Coping mechanisms and how one adapts to employment can be traced back to early experiences. Yet, recent cuts in hundreds of billions of dollars to ...