The neonatal period, which is defined as the first 28 days after birth, is known to be a crucial stage in the development of the human brain. During this stage, the brain is known to grow ...

The brain is known to develop gradually throughout the human lifespan, following a hierarchical pattern. First, it adapts to support basic functions, such as movement and sensory perception, then it ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Findings published in Cell and Science uncover metabolic and physical cues that influence which cell types radial glia produce in the developing human cortex In two new studies, UCLA researchers used ...

UCLA researchers created a single-cell map of the developing human neocortex in Down syndrome during a critical window of prenatal brain development, finding that the condition alters the ...

Scientists have traditionally thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research by Stanford Medicine scientists, working with collaborators from the California Institute of Technology ...

A recent study may reshape our understanding of brain evolution and open new avenues for studying neurological diseases.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...