Social media didn’t make its way into children’s lives with a big announcement. It wormed its way in one app at a time, one ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

A missing brain molecule may be disrupting neural wiring in Down syndrome, according to new research. Replacing it in adult ...

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 ...

Nanit has raised $50M to expand AI in early childhood development, giving parents deeper insight into sleep, milestones and ...

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, ...

Imagine watching the brain not as a finished organ but as a city under construction, where every neuron is a worker changing jobs as the skyline rises. A series of papers in Nature published on ...

Research reveals why some people become brain super-agers—and how simple daily habits can help keep your brain strong, sharp, ...

The scientists said understanding the brain's structural journey "will help us identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption" in future. The human brain goes through five major stages ...