The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that children aged 6 to 12 sleep 9 to 12 hours per night. The American ...

Nineties games focused on skill-building, while today's games test psychological resilience, one expert told Newsweek.

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New research links earlier smartphone access to higher risks of depression, poor sleep, and obesity in kids, underscoring why ...

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For years, critics have used fear of “IQ loss” to fuel campaigns against community water fluoridation. Public officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have called fluoride an “industrial waste”.

From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...

Children who receive smartphones before age 12 face increased risks of depression, obesity and poor sleep, according to a new ...

While the brain itself doesn’t have any nerve sensors to feel pain, blood vessels in the head and structures that protect and surround the brain do sense pain. When these tissues detect injury or ...

A new study found a developmental link between longer daily screen time and increased ADHD symptoms after two years.

Nostalgia Meets Neuroscience The popular image of the 1960s and 70s childhood is one of free-range freedom: wood-paneled station wagons, bicycles without helmets, and a general ...

During each of these phases, our brains show markedly different characteristics in their architecture, according to the new ...