New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest stages of fetal development through old age. A new study published in Cell ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A study reveals our brain development changes at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83.

Maternal gut–immune stress shapes fetal brain development differently in males and females, revealing sex-specific pathways ...

The human brain grows in size and creates new neural pathways during the first nine years of life, which begin at birth. The ...

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.