About 1 in 5 U.S. women experience maternal mental health conditions, and chronic stress during pregnancy can increase the ...

Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) variability reflects meaningful brain activity, yet its structural and biological correlates during early development remain unknown. Using longitudinal ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Families looking for a drug-free, personalized approach to child and adult brain development will soon ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

Study reveals how proteins direct nerve cell precursors to turn into specialized neurons. Brain development is a highly orchestrated process involving numerous parallel and sequential steps. Many of ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 16 months, toddlers begin developing cognitive skills, and parents play a powerful role in their child's early childhood ...

Following a brain injury, specific progenitor cells produce a neuropeptide to prevent their neighboring cells from maturing ...

A Cleveland Clinic research team studying alcohol and the brain discovered a new way that alcohol abuse can cause brain ...