A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of all pediatric brain tumors. Although this type of tumor is usually not life-threatening, the ...

Researchers have built the first-ever molecular atlas of the human brain vasculature at single-cell resolution, spanning from early development to adulthood and through disease stages such as brain ...

At the recent annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which was held in San Diego from November 13-17, four poster presentations told of how, in animal studies, early exposure to psychiatric ...

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 ...

As a developmental neurobiologist at Harvard University, Paola Arlotta spends most of her time thinking about how the brain develops, how it functions, and what goes wrong in the context of ...

New research reveals how constant headphone use prevents normal brain development in young people, leading to processing issues.

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...