Scans of more than 3,500 people allow scientists to draw up a guide to the brain areas that work together from birth to 100 ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

New neuroscience research identifies Glutamine Synthetase as the key enzyme driving postnatal brain maturation and neuronal ...

How does mild hypoxia affect preterm babies? New research identifies a molecular mechanism that disrupts hippocampal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early childhood educators and their advocates often talk about the crucial development that happens after a baby is born through ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

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 ...

During intensive care after preterm births, babies can experience low oxygen in their tissue and cells—or hypoxia. Hypoxia is ...

Study: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Image credit: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language ...