A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

Human brains are built to grow for years, yet for some children that growth is cut short, leaving them with smaller heads, ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

Within the first year of life, the brain triples in size, reaching 90% of its adult size by age six. In this week's Therapy Thursday, therapist Kaydee Norton with Sunbeam Family Services discusses the ...

In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...