The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.

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Brain-imaging data collected from fetuses and infants has revealed a rapid surge in functional connectivity between brain regions on a global scale at birth, possibly reflecting neural processes that ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

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

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Researchers utilize a large functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset to model developmental trajectories of brain functional networks spanning 25 to 55 weeks of post-conceptual gestational age.