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

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

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center—Leibniz ...

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 ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...

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

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

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 ...