The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A team of researchers has created a 3D atlas of developing mice brains, providing a more dynamic understanding of how the mammalian brain develops. This atlas provides a common reference and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

Canadian scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a noninvasive brain-monitoring technique could help medical ...

UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language ...

Parents want to support their child's development, but many aren't sure what works. Here are five common reading myths and ...

Becoming a father is great for a man’s brain health — starting when he first learns that a new child is expected, and then on ...

Comparison between human brain surface MRI reconstructions and ferret brain simulations for the cortical malformation polymicrogyria. A simple set of physical rules, including the relative thickness ...