How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

Why do developmental disorders occur? The relationship between brain development, nutrition, and the gut"Why do developmental ...

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 / ...

Analysis of nearly 30,000 brain scans yields detailed timeline of how the brain matures — and hints at the consequences of disrupting it.

Findings published in Cell and Science uncover metabolic and physical cues that influence which cell types radial glia produce in the developing human cortex In two new studies, UCLA researchers used ...

A landmark centre aims to discover exactly how the human brain develops from infancy for the very first time. The new £50 ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

Brain development, especially before birth, is crucial to one’s mental health later in life. We know from previous research that disturbed development in the womb is linked to disorders such as autism ...

Study finds that psychotherapy during pregnancy can improve depression outcomes and could benefit infant brain and emotional ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

The first year of life is a period of rapid brain development. Your baby's brain is constantly forming and strengthening ...