If your teen is not a reader and you blame social media for hijacking their brains, you’re not so far off base: A new study ...

The researchers emphasize that these differences are a result of the unique environment for twins—such as sharing parental ...

Executive function skills are a set of inter-related processes that support attention, self-control, and goal-directed ...

"What too much screen time leads to is a variety of missed opportunities for learning and development," one of the study's authors tells TIME Limiting kids’ access to digital devices may have more of ...

The department offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in development studies. Development Studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

The National Institutes of Health awarded a seven-year continuation of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, providing FIU and 20 other study sites ...