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Early life influences have been linked to higher risk of suicide later in life. Reducing those risks, and boosting resilience in children exposed to them, may help reduce suicide rates.
The babies born since March 11 2020 have faced a unique set of challenges.
Babies would rather listen to each other than to their parents’ babytalk, according to new research.
Women who don’t get enough to eat while pregnant face a high risk of developing common mental illnesses like depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after giving birth.
This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
In 12 years Kenya has managed to dramatically improve its exclusive breastfeeding rates from 13% to 61%. The success has not come without challenges, and some persist.
One of the most common surgical procedures undertaken in the world today – one that every human alive has undergone – is the clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord at birth.
There’s nothing like raising an infant to help galvanise one of the greatest debates in modern linguistics.
Infants may use their caregiver’s touches to learn new words, according to a recent study. Researchers, led by Amanda Seidl…
Media products that claim to teach babies to read don’t work, new research by New York University shows. The study led by…
Three to four-month-old human infants respond to primate calls in the same way as to human language. Research from the US…
Infants develop the ability to consciously process their environment as early as five months of age, according to a study published today in the journal Science. The team of French and Danish researchers…
Babies respond to faces virtually the same way adults do, even though their visual systems are still developing. Researchers…
Infants hear words that shape their development long before they are able to speak, according a US university researcher…
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor in the Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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Director of the Perinatal Mental Health Project; Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Child Language Acquisition, Cardiff University
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Assistant Professor, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Youth Suicide Prevention, McGill University
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Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, Newcastle University
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Chair in Developmental Psychopathology, UCL
