Melbourne researchers have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development, shedding new light on how neurodevelopmental disorders may develop. The research, led ...

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

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes ...

UCSF scientists mapped 1,800 protein interactions across 100 ASD risk genes, finding that genetically diverse autism mutations converge on shared protein hubs. A single small-molecule drug could ...

In people diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker tool that detects shrinkage of the brain's gray matter ...

Cell-culture brain models called organoids can be used to study far more advanced neurodevelopmental disorders than ...

An international team of scientists developed human brain organoids for five full years in a lab to study how they age.

Family finances and opportunities in a child’s neighborhood account for about 16% of the variability in kids’ brain function — far more than IQ, health history or how their parents raise them, ...

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In a new study published recently in the journal Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health have created the first growth charts for white matter in the brain over a human ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing videogames. But from the perspective of neuroscience, reading is much more than just entertainment. This ...