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

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

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Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German ...

Houston Methodist neuroscientists have developed a first-of-its-kind method to rapidly produce synchronized, human brain wave ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Read how the human brain-arguably the most complex physical structure in the known universe-reflects the same archetypal ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A ...

The human brain is anything but static, shifting neural activity depending on time of day. In A Nutshell Scientists mapped ...

Avocados and walnuts both offer nutrients linked to memory, focus, and healthy aging. Here’s what dietitians say about how ...

In the new study, Mousley and colleagues looked at around 4,000 scans from healthy people ages 0 to 90 and analyzed their brains. They found four major times when the brain underwent developmental ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.