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

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons: synapses. A recent ...

Researchers investigated the impact of glucocorticoids, a type of steroid hormone, on the early stages of brain development. They found a shift in neuron types, showing that the developing brain ...

revealing detailed molecular pathways that guide brain development from early embryonic stages through early postnatal development. The research team, led by Professors Christopher Deppmann and ...

"Deep sleep builds your immune system, and REM sleep regulates and fine-tunes it," says Darwall-Smith agrees. During deep ...

Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain circuits spans across two different stages. The first of these stages takes place before animals and humans start experiencing life.

Although researchers are in the nascent stages of studying the impacts of climate change on brain development, it should come as no surprise that much like cigarette smoke, drugs and toxicants, ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

“These results show us that the human brain is very malleable and susceptible to external influences during the early stages of development, even more so than we previously thought”, Dony shares.

25 (UPI) --A new, wide-ranging review of existing scientific data released Tuesday is pointing to the possibility that dozens of commonly prescribed drugs could adversely affect brain development ...