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.

Cambridge neuroscientists discover five distinct stages of brain development from birth to 90, revealing key turning points ...

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In a groundbreaking study, UC Santa Cruz researchers have shown that developing brain tissue exhibits spontaneous activity ...

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 ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

A new study finds the human brain moves through five major developmental eras, marked by key turning points from childhood to ...

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 ...