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.

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 ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

Brain development does not occur uniformly across the brain, but follows a newly identified developmental sequence, according to a new study. Brain regions that support cognitive, social ...

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 ...

Q. What are the effects of marijuana use on teenage brain development? Are there some people who should not use marijuana even if it’s legal? A. Marijuana, also called cannabis, is a widely ...

To give you a sense of the scale, our meta-atlas of the adult brain pulls together 16 atlases profiling 2.6 million cells from 274 individuals, and our meta-atlas of the developing brain pulls ...

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 ...

Authors Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, both of the University of Cambridge, suggest that cereal consumption may influence brain development through the gene CPLX3, which is involved ...

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 ...

But she didn't stop there. In doing this work, she came up with a bunch of hypotheses about how brain development happens. She then used brain organoid models—3D brain tissue grown from human ...