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

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind for life. Adolescence is a major turning point not only for social and ...

This image shows densely accumulated dendritic spines. Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously ...

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

A recent analysis of a major developmental dataset reveals that children who play musical instruments over several years ...

There’s this idea that something happens in the human brain when we turn 25. Suddenly, we can rent a car without fees. Make ...

In humans, this network is the seat of social cognition, memory, and perhaps even the sense of self. The DMN is most active ...

The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

Andy Williams, now 39, is set to be resentenced as a juvenile for the deadly rampage he committed when he was 15.

The stimulants Ritalin and Adderall have been used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but ...