Youth (including both childhood and adolescence) is a period when the brain undergoes
dramatic remodeling and is also a time when neuropsychiatric conditions often emerge …

Learning to respond to others' distress with well-regulated empathy is an important
developmental task linked to positive health outcomes and moral achievements. However …

Several reports have described cortical thickness (CTh) developmental trajectories, with
conflicting results. Some studies have reported inverted-U shape curves with peaks of CTh …

Because fetal brain development proceeds at an extremely rapid pace, early life
experiences have the potential to alter the trajectory of neurodevelopment, which may …

Early-life development is characterized by dramatic changes, impacting lifespan function
more than changes in any other period. Developmental origins of neurocognitive late-life …

Background Maternal depression is one of the most common prenatal complications. The
consequences of fetal exposure to maternal depression are poorly understood. The aim of …

Magnetic resonance imaging of subcortical gray matter structures, which mediate behavior,
cognition and the pathophysiology of several diseases, is crucial for establishing typical …

Background Glucocorticoids play a critical role in normative regulation of fetal brain
development. Exposure to excessive levels may have detrimental consequences and …

Cortical development is dependent on extrinsic stimulation. As such, sensory deprivation, as
in congenital deafness, can dramatically alter functional connectivity and growth in the …

In this review, we discuss behavioral studies on time perception in healthy children that
suggest the existence of a primitive “sense” of time in infants as well as research that has …