“This marks a major milestone in our multi-site NIH-funded effort to better understand how factors during pregnancy influence neurodevelopment in infants and toddlers,” Newsom said. “The data release ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory postdoc Stan Kerstjens and colleagues have devised a new theory for how the brain organizes ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

A study of infants during their first year of life found that those coming from households where parents felt their income was inadequate to support the family’s needs tended to show delayed brain ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

In this week's edition, columnist Gideon Hall examines the common myth that the human brain finishes developing at age 25.

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...

Students at Elkins Middle School will have the opportunity to learn about brain development and the effects that substance ...