University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the ...

Because optimal brain health and cognitive function are not guaranteed, they are dependent on many factors, including genetics, the environment, healthy development, and daily lifestyle habits.

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones, the ...

This is a period of rapid growth in a child’s brain development and learning. By age three, a child’s brain will have grown to 80% of its adult size. By age five, it will be 90% of its adult size.

The review is published in National Science Review, and provides fresh insights into how brain cells continuously "compete" ...

physicians and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development. Your Child's Brain is produced by Kennedy Krieger Institute with ...

The findings appear Jan. 8 in Nature. “Many brain diseases begin during different stages of development, but until now we haven’t had a comprehensive roadmap for simply understanding healthy brain ...

Information about a parent’s perception of a child’s gender gives researchers a better sense of the child’s social environment and how it may affect their brain development. The authors used ...

Although researchers are in the nascent stages of studying the impacts of climate change on brain development, it should come as no surprise that much like cigarette smoke, drugs and toxicants, ...