The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

A novel reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice has been developed. During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But ...

Disrupting maternal gut-immune axis perturbed immune networks in developing mouse brains, revealing potential mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders.

By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...