Social interaction deficits seen in psychiatric disorders emerge in early-life and are most
closely linked to aberrant neural circuit function. Due to technical limitations, we have limited …

Early life social experiences shape neural pathways in infants to develop lifelong social
skills. This review presents the first unified circuit-based model of social learning that can be …

Maternal affiliation by infants is the first social behavior of mammalian animals. We report
here that elimination of the Tph2 gene essential for serotonin synthesis in the brain reduced …

Background Vision provides crucial information for parent-child attunement that scaffolds
social development from the first months of life. Congenital blindness might affect both …

The human specific cognitive shift starts around the age of 2 years with the onset of self-
awareness, and continues with extraordinary increase in cognitive capacities during early …

Infants are exceptionally fragile and physically vulnerable who need special healthcare.
Continuous monitoring of vital information of infants is essential for understanding their …

Despite growing evidence implicating thalamic functional connectivity atypicalities in autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), it remains unclear how such alterations emerge early in human …

Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies has revealed altered connectivity in
cortical–subcortical networks in youth and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) …

Social behaviors dynamically change throughout the lifespan alongside the maturation of
neural circuits. The basolateral region of the amygdala (BLA), in particular, undergoes …

Prefrontal cortical maturation coincides with adolescent transitions in social engagement,
suggesting that it influences social development. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is …