Piaget found four major developmental stages (with many subdivisions). For the first year and a half or two years of life, infants are only aware of sensorimotor experience, and do not connect it ...

Human development ... childhood neglect can disrupt development, perhaps even more than abuse does. But parents are far from the only influencers in a child's life: Siblings, grandparents ...

Environmental factors like stress and medication exposure during pregnancy can shape brain development, but the mechanisms ...

Human life history differs in many ways from our ... reveals the relative amount of brain formed at a given developmental stage. Both absolute and proportional EVs are used to examine patterns ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

Extraembryonic trophoblast lineages constitute the placenta, and are essential for individual development. In human early embryo development, these cells can be generated from totipotent blastomeres.