When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as ...

Co-authored with Alyssa Swift, M.S. In the current post, we are returning to our lab’s roots investigating the foundations of emotional development that occur in infancy. We know that infants have an ...

In the weeks after conception, your baby starts out as an embryo made up of three distinct layers: the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm, all of which form at just 3 weeks of pregnancy. It’s in the ...

Sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. How, for example, do you decide to wiggle your fingers? A lot is known about the muscles and neural structures involved—the puppet and the ...

While experts emphasize that no single moment determines a child’s future, the research suggests that consistent patterns of ...