Less physical activity for infants below one year of age may lead to more fat accumulation which in turn may predispose them to obesity later in life, suggests a study led by researchers at the Johns ...

Physical activity and exploration in infancy affect physical and cognitive development. Nutritional supplementation improves activity in severely malnourished infants, but the evidence in ...

A study that used activity trackers to monitor babies found associations between infants’ movement and levels of fat. By Gretchen Reynolds In a world that encourages inactivity, even our babies may be ...

Background: Associations of maternal leisure time physical activity with birth size are inconsistent. Roles of infant sex and maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) in these associations have not ...

Danae Dinkel receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. When people set personal fitness goals and establish their physical exercise routines, there’s a group of cuddly individuals that ...

Through the Infant Development Project, researchers in the Interdisciplinary Lab for Social Development explored how early brain activity relates to the flexibility of infants’ social interactions and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The apparent failure of infants to understand "object permanence" by reaching for hidden objects is perhaps the most striking and debated ...

Research shows for the first time that when adults are engaged in joint play together with their infant, the parents' brains show bursts of high-frequency activity, which are linked to their baby's ...

A psychologist found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart rate. The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like ...