Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to ...

Recent studies integrating multi-omics data with cell atlases across development for brains of humans and model organisms are revealing conserved and divergent patterns of brain development at the ...