A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

At birth, the brain is far from fully developed. Neural connections are formed at a rapid pace during the first weeks of life, and blood vessels—which supply oxygen and nutrients to nerve cells—follow ...

The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it breaks.

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you’ll inevitably stumble across the line: “Your frontal lobe isn’t fully developed yet.” It’s become neuroscience’s go-to explanation for bad ...

The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

Largest U.S. study links teen cannabis use to slower cognitive development and reduced gains in memory and attention.

Houston Methodist neuroscientists have developed a first-of-its-kind method to rapidly produce synchronized, human brain wave-like activity in lab-grown neural networks that can communicate over long ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have taken a step toward a long-sought goal in treating ...

Since their beginnings, psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy have all assumed that psychological and emotional distress has its origins inside isolated individuals: dysfunctional ...

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