“This marks a major milestone in our multi-site NIH-funded effort to better understand how factors during pregnancy influence neurodevelopment in infants and toddlers,” Newsom said. “The data release ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

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 ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory postdoc Stan Kerstjens and colleagues have devised a new theory for how the brain organizes ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have created the first high-resolution molecular atlas of the adult Drosophila ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

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

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

In this week's edition, columnist Gideon Hall examines the common myth that the human brain finishes developing at age 25.