January 11, 2010 — Children who develop schizophrenia as adults already show signs of cognitive deficits by the age of 7 years and lag behind their peers on measures of memory, attention, and ...
Neuronal activity during development shapes functional connectivity between neurons and thus determines the ‘wiring’ of the mammalian brain. As best described for the development of sensory systems, ...
A recent study published in the journal GeroScience suggests that a person’s overall physical and mental reserve can predict ...
Researchers have now uncovered their crucial role in closing the period of brain plasticity that follows birth, finding them to be key to the development of sensory and cognitive faculties. Over the ...
Are you interested in the ways that biology and the environment affect how people change, from birth through adulthood? Human development explores the developmental process in humans throughout the ...
A new longitudinal study found that individuals who were maltreated as children tended to have poorer performance on cognitive tasks assessing general intelligence, abstract visual reasoning, ...