A smart new platform developed by IIT Bombay unifies scattered brain-disease data to help researchers find markers, explore ...

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

Learn the new science of brain development and discover the importance of connections and learning for ongoing brain health.

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

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this process possible. Among the discoveries is PEDS1, a gene now linked to a ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

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 ...

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

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry signals within it and to the rest of the body. Growing axons "wire up" the brain ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence from twin studies suggests that ...