If one wished to discover the function of sleep a particularly important place to look would be infant sleep. In the first months of life, the human infant spends most of its 24-hour day asleep (15-18 ...

Vol. 88, No. 2, SPECIAL SECTION: Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-Based Interventions for At-Risk Youth and Families (MARCH/APRIL 2017), pp. 584-596 (13 pages) Although ...

In the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, orphanages and foundling homes had shockingly high mortality rates. For example, the Dusseldorf nursery—a well funded, clean, and 'scientific' ...

The connection that infants form with their parents or caregivers is crucial for their cognitive, social, and emotional development. These attachments vary in quality, depending on how caregivers ...

New research has found that there is no link between bed sharing, infant-mother attachment, and infant behavioral outcomes. New research led by the University of Kent has found that there is no link ...

Infants’ mental representations of attachment are thought to develop across the first year, but empirical attempts to assess ...

Leaving an infant to 'cry it out' from birth up to 18 months does not adversely affect their behavior development or attachment, researchers from the University of Warwick have found, they also ...

This meta-analytic review (k = 5-10; N = 258-895) examined links between attachment insecurity and physiological activity at baseline and in response to interpersonal stress elicited by ...

You can develop an anxious attachment style if your parents were inconsistently attentive to your needs in infancy and childhood. How a caregiver interacts with a baby or young child can affect the ...

In dogs, just like in human infants, attachment is associated with reward-related brain responses to the caregiver's speech, according to a new study published recently in NeuroImage. Combining ...