Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides a detailed model of how the human brain develops during the transition ...

Brain scientists have long debated when, and how strongly, sex starts to shape the human brain. A growing body of imaging ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

Newborn finger proportions may reflect early hormone exposure and could be linked to differences in early brain growth.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

A new analysis from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort suggests that dietary patterns at just 2 years of age are associated with ...

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 ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...