Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

Scientists say they need better access to human brain tissue to understand how dementia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, autism, ...

Academics isn't the only way to develop sharp minds in children, it is about nurturing their creativity, supporting their ...

A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Yale University have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Yale University have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse brain develops after birth and how it reacts to inflammation. The study, which ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

A new single-cell brain atlas reveals how midbrain neurons develop, helping refine Parkinson’s disease models and improve cell therapy protocols.

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...