Researchers identify specific psychosocial factors that strongly correlate with altered brain development within the first ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that no amount of later effort can fully undo. Researchers are now tracing how ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...