Your Child's Brain

About Your Child's Brain

Each month Your Child’s Brain will bring together experts in child brain health, including researchers, educators, physicians and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development. Your Child's Brain is produced by Kennedy Krieger Institute with assistance from WYPR.

Publisher

WYPR Baltimore

Category

health & fitness · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2021

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   How Do You Talk to Children About Mental Health and Crisis Prevention?

   Dr. Theresa Nguyen, pediatrician and host of the "Practical Parenting" podcast, joins Dr. Brad Schlaggar this month to talk about the state of youth mental health. Recent research reveals that kids are more anxious or depressed than previously reported and are even considering suicide more frequently than parents might know. Dr. Nguyen and Dr. Schlagger share advice for talking about these tough topics with the children in your lives.

2. 

   3 Sept 2026

   New Strategies for Pediatric Brain Cancer

   September is Childhood Cancer Month. On this episode of Your Child's Brain, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by Drs. Stacy Suskauer and Rachel Peterson to discuss advances in the treatment and research of pediatric brain cancer, one of the most common types of cancer in children. They also discuss a new program at Kennedy Krieger that is designed to connect pediatric brain cancer patients to resources and help support their cognitive and physical health during and after treatment.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   A New Clinic, Cool Research & Our Nervous System

   What is neurofibromatosis? On this month’s episode of Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Brad Schlaggar talks with neurologists Dr. Stephanie Morris and Dr. Jaishri Blakeley about this rare disease which affects about 1 in 2,500 individuals. They discuss what neurofibromatosis is, how it affects the body, and the ways it’s being treated at a new Kennedy Krieger clinic for pediatric patients, an extension of a world-class neurofibromatosis center at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

66,943

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

7

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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