Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study.

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

A recent study revealed that a mother's voice strengthens a baby’s speech development.To note, fetuses start hearing around ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

Children aged 9-13 who spent more time on social media performed worse on reading, memory and language tests two years later, ...