Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

Researchers using a portable MRI scanner found that measurable differences in brain volumes emerged at around 12 months of age, offering some of the earliest evidence yet that maternal anemia shapes ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Harvard neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for over five years. These organoids matured and followed ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...

The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of the human brain. During this stage, the brain is known to grow ...

A $46 million grant from a new autism research initiative, Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA), is turbocharging ...

Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life experiences. Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain ...

Since their beginnings, psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy have all assumed that psychological and emotional distress has its origins inside isolated individuals: dysfunctional ...