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

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

“Early brain development is shaped not only by biology, but by the everyday experiences infants have with their caregivers ...

Parents today are paying closer attention to children's brain development, from nutrition to screen habits. A paediatrician ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

The 25 number became popular off the back of brain imaging studies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. These studies often tracked changes through childhood and adolescence and showed that the brain ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...