New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible ...

These eras of brain architecture are marked by four major turning points, which occur around the ages of 9, 32, 66 and 83, ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

According to the researchers: Childhood brain topology reaches a turning point at age 9, transitioning to the adolescent ...

For high performers recovering from a traumatic brain injury, the goal isn’t to reclaim who they were. It’s to become who ...

Working full-time and having insurance has not insulated Ashaki Sypher's family from teetering on financial collapse. Her ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has ...

The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself. Neuroscientists at the ...

During each of these phases, our brains show markedly different characteristics in their architecture, according to the new findings.