New programme designed to support health visitors share key information with families around brain development has been ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A team of researchers has created a 3D atlas of developing mice brains, providing a more dynamic understanding of how the mammalian brain develops. This atlas provides a common reference and ...

A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...

The largest study of adolescent brain development ever conducted in the United States has produced a finding that parents in ...

Comparison between human brain surface MRI reconstructions and ferret brain simulations for the cortical malformation polymicrogyria. A simple set of physical rules, including the relative thickness ...