Learning in humans is highly embedded in social interaction: since the very early stages of
our lives, we form memories and acquire knowledge about the world from and with others …

Heightened maternal stress during pregnancy is associated with atypical brain development
and an elevated risk for psychopathology in offspring. Supportive environments during early …

This article is the second of eight articles in this special issue on Family-Centered Early
Intervention (FCEI) for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and their families, or …

Exposure to environmental adversities during early brain development, such as preterm
birth, can affect early brain organization. Here, we studied whether development of cortical …

Contact with water, even from birth, may be an important experience for child development.
In this work, we aimed to investigate if baby swimming might influence infant development in …

There is compelling evidence that the quality of caregiver-child interactions during
toddlerhood and the preschool years supports the development of executive function …

Despite a large animal literature documenting the role of low maternal nurturance and
elevated glucocorticoid production on offspring limbic development, these pathways have …

Infancy is a sensitive period of development, during which experiences of parental care are
particularly important for shaping the developing brain. In a longitudinal study of N= 95 …

Distinct neural effects of threat versus deprivation emerge by childhood, but little data are
available in infancy. Withdrawn versus negative parenting may represent dimensionalized …

Exposure to cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal classified as an environmental endocrine
disruptor, can exert significant toxicity in both animals and humans. However, the potential …