Consuming a diet heavy in fat and sugar during childhood can permanently alter how the brain regulates appetite later in life, even if healthy eating habits are adopted in adulthood. However, ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, ...

UConn Center on Aging researchers have published a new editorial in the journal Aging titled "Polyploidy-induced senescence: Linking development, differentiation, repair, and (possibly) cancer?" In ...

A new study shows that whether families can reliably meet basic needs, not just how much they earn, may shape infants’ brain development as early as the first year of life. Study: Income insufficiency ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age 2 showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower decision-making and increased anxiety by their teenage years, according to ...

Childhood is full of transformations—some predictable, some surprising, and some that can leave parents wondering whether what they’re seeing is a normal part of growing up or a sign of something that ...

This functional MRI study critically tests the hypothesis that poor face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia in humans is driven by reduced spatial integration and smaller receptive fields in ...

NORMAL (25News Now) - A new Tax Increment Financing district development could be coming to the Uptown Normal area. The project would target residential development north of Uptown Circle and the ...

Mike Deavers, associate professor or industrial technology at Heartland Community College, says enrollment in the college's mechanical and electrical maintenance program has risen sharply in the last ...

To most parents, a toddler's insistence on the "right" plate or bedtime routine seems like a normal developmental quirk or just the latest cause of a meltdown. However, for some children, these ...