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

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

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

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

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

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

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When researchers at Lund University investigated how UM171, a molecule used to make blood stem cells multiply, works, they ...

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