Children with asthma suffer from worse memories than those who don’t ever develop the lung condition, new research suggests. The earlier a child becomes asthmatic can also determine how badly their ...

Children with asthma scored significantly lower than those without asthma on measures of episodic memory, based on longitudinal data from nearly 500 individuals. Animal models have shown associations ...

Memory helps your child learn and it provides the building blocks with which she constructs her understanding of the world. Did you know that even as a toddler, your child can even remember aspects of ...

Neuroscientists have discovered a fascinating connection between the retention of early life memories and brain developmental trajectories associated with autism. Neuroscientists have discovered a ...

Childhood memories play a fundamental role in personality development. Certain defining moments, even simple ones, can have a lasting impact on how a child perceives themselves and interacts with the ...

Childhood amnesia (also known as infantile amnesia) is the inability to recall the first two to three years of our lives—an absence of memory that has puzzled psychologists since the 19th century. In ...

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When children play, it’s more than just laughter and fun, something beautiful is happening inside the brain. Neurons light up, memory muscles stretch, and attention spans expand gently, one playful ...