A human infant is born with roughly twice as many synapses as it will eventually need. Over the first few years of life, the brain aggressively trims the weakest connections, keeping only those that ...

A new study led by biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how the primary visual cortex establishes its ...

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly. Georgia Tech physicists are now helping explain why this happens, having ...