The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

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, ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

A cutting-edge laboratory technique that turns human stem cells into brain-like tissue now recapitulates human brain development more accurately than ever, according to a new study from Case Western ...

According to a new study published by researchers at Yale and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, some of the same molecular changes that occur in brain inflammation also happen during normal ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...