Researchers at the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and the University of Manchester have identified a group of previously unknown genetic disorders linked to neurodevelopmental ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

A largely overlooked structure inside our cells may play a crucial role in how the brain forms, offering new insight into ...

New programme designed to support health visitors share key information with families around brain development has been ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

A team of researchers has created a 3D atlas of developing mice brains, providing a more dynamic understanding of how the mammalian brain develops. This atlas provides a common reference and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the ...

Comparison between human brain surface MRI reconstructions and ferret brain simulations for the cortical malformation polymicrogyria. A simple set of physical rules, including the relative thickness ...