Caregivers celebrate many milestones between a baby's birth and their first birthday. During these 12 months, many infants go from being unable to support their head to crawling and standing, and from ...

New research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

The human immune system is complex and carefully regulates itself to optimize its protective effects while preventing unwanted inflammatory responses to arise due to misdirected immune activity.

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Through the Infant Development Project, researchers in the Interdisciplinary Lab for Social Development explored how early brain activity relates to the flexibility of infants’ social interactions and ...