The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Emily Sylwestrak is in the Department of Biology and at the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA. The brain’s vast diversity of cell types has long captivated ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

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 ...

Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink in 2016 to develop brain-machine interfaces. The first product — the N1 implant — focuses on allowing patients with paralysis to control computer cursors with their mind ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain develops while they're awake. "It's such a rapid window of change for the ...

A long-term study shows how screen time in babies may alter brain development and increase vulnerability to anxiety years ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

The Picostim-DyNeuMo research system, made by UK company Amber Therapeutics, is an adaptive neurostimulator seated in the skull with two electrodes placed in targeted brain circuits to sense ...

Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence from twin studies suggests that ...