An analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study data showed that children accepted by their parents and more resilient to trauma tend to have an accelerated pace of cortical thinning, ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and ...

An influential hypothesis in neuroscience is that the brain may operate near criticality, a transition zone between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of molecular and cellular processes. Neuroscience studies have found that the ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating ...

A specialized network responsible for washing away cellular waste in the brain might play a role in the development of ...

A diet focused on the best foods for brain health slowed aging in key parts of the brain by over 2 years, a new study found.