The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

A new study shows companies helped by Charleston County Economic Development support tens of thousands of jobs and billions ...

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 ...

Development Studies examines the social, economic and political processes that shape human well-being across low- and middle-income settings. Emerging after the Second World War, it brings together ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As more children are raised in a digital world, researchers, doctors, and parents are becoming more ...

Largest U.S. study links teen cannabis use to slower cognitive development and reduced gains in memory and attention.

A mother’s depression and anxiety from conception through the first year of the baby’s life is associated with negative developmental outcomes through adolescence, according to a study published ...

The Global South Development studies program, a multidisciplinary social science program, explores the transformation of African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern societies since the 16th ...

Children born at 5,000 feet or more above sea level are typically smaller at birth and more likely to remain stunted than those born at lower altitudes, according to new worldwide research published ...

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...