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

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

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

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain ...

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 ...

Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

The brain implant is an ultra-thin chip designed to create a fast, wireless link between the human brain and artificial ...

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