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

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

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

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

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 ...

1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is continually pruning away haphazardly created synaptic connections forged as early learning, unlearning and relearning chaotically ...

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

SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing. This Collection welcomes original research articles that aim to unravel the earliest mechanisms and their timing in healthy brain development and in newborn / ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

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

UCLA Health researchers have created a comprehensive map showing how eight different genetic mutations associated with autism ...