That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early ...

In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have identified the neurogenic ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, ...

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 ...

Expert birders show denser brain tissue in attention and visual regions, suggesting the skill may help slow certain aspects ...

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Newborn finger proportions may reflect early hormone exposure and could be linked to differences in early brain growth.

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 ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

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Children who spent a lot of time on screens before the age of two showed changes in brain development that were later linked ...