As I enter deep middle age, parenting two teenagers, I find reading about brain development more interesting. The old-school view of becoming an adult at 18 (or 21) seems simple. The more recent ...
In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...
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 ...
“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...
A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, and ...
A collaborative research study co-led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Liber Institute ...
In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...
Autism’s links to other brain disorders may extend beyond Alzheimer’s, with some studies pointing to a higher risk of ...
Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin ...
Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...