New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

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

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

According to the researchers: Childhood brain topology reaches a turning point at age 9, transitioning to the adolescent phase. The adolescent phase lasts right up to age 32, on average. In the early ...

Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ...

A team of researchers has created a 3D atlas of developing mice brains, providing a more dynamic understanding of how the mammalian brain develops. This atlas provides a common reference and ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal ...

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological ...

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...