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childhood

Kids can tell if you're smiling under your mask

Study finds that a mask has the same impact as sunglasses on a child's ability to perceive the wearer's emotions

Lead poisoning hits low-income children harder than their affluent neighbors

Children living in poverty suffer greater cognitive and physical effects from lead exposure than children from richer families, even if they live in the same area

Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

Hours spent catching 'em all primes the brain to recognize familiar, pixelated Pikachus

Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys

Less than 50 of our 20,000 genes are unique to humans. What separates us from monkeys?

Should parents fear potatoes as much as screens?

A new study says neither have serious positive or negative impacts on childhood well-being

Two behavioral neuroscientists discuss the long-term damage of family separation

The neurological and behavioral consequences of separating children from parents, especially mothers, can persist into adulthood

A version of this article originally appeared on NPR Scicommers

Here's what happens to hamster brains when they don't get enough play

Play might be more important for brain development than we thought