The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ...

Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ageing.

New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The first five years of a child’s life are everything. For Our Keiki shares simple, practical tips to boost your child’s ...

"We cannot slacken our efforts." Researchers issue warning about invisible threat that could impact newborns' brain ...

Brain-imaging data collected from fetuses and infants has revealed a rapid surge in functional connectivity between brain regions on a global scale at birth, possibly reflecting neural processes that ...

Before age 5, a baby's brain grows rapidly, undergoing a uniquely important moment in development. Yet, many don't understand just how critical it is for setting a person's foundation for thriving.

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 ...

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