Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...

For decades, my colleagues and I advanced the premise that early substance use—nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis (or other addicting drugs)—interferes with critical maturation stages, particularly ...

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

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 ...

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions. Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious ...