Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could ...

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

According to the researchers: Childhood brain topology reaches a turning point at age 9, transitioning to the adolescent phase. The adolescent phase lasts right up to age 32, on average. In the early ...

Preterm infants born before 32 weeks who received more skin-to-skin contact while in the hospital showed stronger brain development in areas tied to emotion and stress regulation than babies who ...

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