At a typical pediatric visit, parents are given information about their child’s height and weight, compared to that of other children, and are often shown a scale of their child’s growth on a national curve.
Professor Tracy Riggins of the Department of Psychology in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, along with Professors Brenda Jones Harden and Nathan Fox of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology in the College of Education, are part of a team of UMD researchers and collaborators who are working to create a future where pediatricians—and other medical professionals and researchers—can also track and share information about a child’s brain development.
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