To determine the levels and patterns of physical activity in a sample of obese (≥99th percentile body mass index (BMI)) and nonobese (<99th percentile BMI) children. Children were recruited from ...

We don’t look at polka dots twice. Our brains immediately recognize that they’re a repeating pattern of dots. The same goes for plaid, chevron or any kind of design. We’re also able to look at a bunch ...

This Play School series aims to develop a child's awareness of patterns in everyday life; visual patterns, patterns in sound and music and patterns in daily routines. Across the series, we find and ...

Spending more time on screens, staying up late and sleeping late may require some adjustments for the start of the school year. By Perri Klass, M.D. So how are you sleeping these days? Some children — ...

Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown. In the first functional MRI brain scan study to investigate ...

Early-onset preeclampsia was associated with increased risk for delayed early-childhood development in the domain of ...