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

Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest stages of fetal development through old age. A new study published in Cell ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Parents reading to children at age three can reduce the negative effects of screen time on the brain, earlier study finds.

Researchers utilize a large functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset to model developmental trajectories of brain functional networks spanning 25 to 55 weeks of post-conceptual gestational age.