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

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

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

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

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

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

Within the first year of life, the brain triples in size, reaching 90% of its adult size by age six. In this week's Therapy Thursday, therapist Kaydee Norton with Sunbeam Family Services discusses the ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...

Common toy injuries include eye injuries. Tamara Oechslin, O.D., Ph.D., associate professor at the UAB School of Optometry , ...