Childhood environment and socioeconomic status affect cognitive ability and brain development during adolescence independently of genetic factors, researchers at Karolinska Institutet report in a new ...

Growing up in an unsafe family environment can give a person valuable survival skills, yet those same skills can be damaging to long-term relationships in adulthood. Recognizing the current signs of ...

How important is the early family environment in which you were raised? Specifically, can your early experiences in your childhood and adolescent family affect you as an adult, in both good and bad ...

Animal studies have reported associations of early maternal separation with altered μ-opioid receptor function but data on humans are scarce. We now investigated whether childhood family environment ...

Over the past several years, there has been a robust debate over the best way to reduce child poverty in the US. One point of view believes that poverty is fundamentally a problem of limited income; ...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the special rapporteur’s report on care and support for children with disabilities within the family environment and its gendered ...

Short videos, with their brevity and high entertainment value, attract many adolescent users. However, prolonged viewing may negatively impact adolescents’ cognitive development, especially ...

Childhood environment and socioeconomic status affect cognitive ability and brain development during adolescence independently of genetic factors, researchers report. The study demonstrates how ...