The human brain undergoes remarkable transformations from infancy through maturity, with each life stage bringing unique ...

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones ...

A new study from the University of Zurich shows that the cultural influence on the transition to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa is more communal and less self-centered than in Western contexts.

New research reveals that early growth patterns can help predict adult height and pubertal growth, but not when puberty will begin—challenging assumptions about how early development shapes ...

Traditionally we think of myopia as progressing in children and early adulthood but then leveling off. New insights indicate that when examining myopia over decades, small changes do occur and can ...

Hong creates a unique mirror to “In Our Day” — a film of great reminiscence — and crafts a story in which looking back on the arrested development of early adulthood is an agonizing affair.

More information: Simone Anzà et al, Early prenatal but not postnatal glucocorticoid exposure is associated with enhanced HPA axis activity into adulthood in a wild primate, Proceedings of the ...