As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

Past studies suggest that a mother-to-be's heightened immune responses during pregnancy are linked to a higher risk of ...

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 ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

MELBOURNE: Researchers in Australia have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development ...

A $46 million grant from a new autism research initiative, Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA), is turbocharging ...

“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...

One in three Americans is likely to be affected by a brain disorder in their lifetime. Many of these conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or severe developmental disorders, have no reliable ...