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

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

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

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 ...

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

Cambridge neuroscientists discover five distinct stages of brain development from birth to 90, revealing key turning points ...

Teenagers often sleep less than the recommended amount of time and have significantly different sleep patterns on weekdays ...

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal ...

A new study reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel 'copies'. These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted ...

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

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 ...