The department offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in development studies. Development Studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a ...

"What too much screen time leads to is a variety of missed opportunities for learning and development," one of the study's authors tells TIME Limiting kids’ access to digital devices may have more of ...

Teens spend more than an hour on smartphones on average during school, according to a study published Monday in the Journal ...

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...

Children who live near major roads are at higher risk for developmental delays because of traffic-related pollutants. That’s the major finding of a new study authored by UC Merced environmental ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

Human development is the study of how people grow and change, from conception through the end of life. The changing nature of the American family, childhood and adolescence, the cultural dynamics of ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

The National Institutes of Health awarded a seven-year continuation of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, providing FIU and 20 other study sites ...

New research presented by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found young adolescents who habitually checked social media showed a distinct neurodevelopmental trajectory ...

In news that will surprise few but still alarm many, a study has found that kids 2-5 years old who engage in more screen time received worse scores in developmental screening tests. The apparent ...

It’s a hot topic. There’s been a lot of talk recently about the presence of fluoride in the water supplies of cities across the United States and possible health risks associated with the chemical’s ...