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The RPI-led research team found that in order for Reelin to function properly in the brain, it must interact with a special ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with $6.7 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched two unprecedented studies that will track over time ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

Research fellow Emma Frey fits Miles Dumlao, 4, with an electrode cap to record his brain activity during a nap in the Somneurolab. A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...

A research team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL), has found new clues about how the brains of people with Down Syndrome develop differently from ...

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