Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence that shifts in response to genetics and external stimuli like sight and ...

(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The prenatal to postnatal development of our brains involves a complex ...

A team at Children's National Medical Center has found that external stimulation has an impact on the postnatal development of a specific region of the brain. Published in Nature Neuroscience, the ...

Study: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Image credit: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to ...

A newly published study in Protein and Cell identifies glutamine synthetase, an enzyme concentrated in brain support cells called astrocytes, as a stage-specific driver of cortical circuit assembly ...

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...