New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult period is the longest, lasting more than 30 years. A subsequent turning ...

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

The findings, published Nov. 25 in the journal Nature Communications, show that brain development isn’t a straight path. Instead, it moves through different “epochs,” or stages, where the brain’s ...

Esther Kuehn works for the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen. She receives funding from the European Research Council ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...

There’s no part of our body so tethered to our sense of self as our brains. From our brain wiring and structure come our thoughts, our beliefs, our likes and dislikes, and our actions. Even though we ...