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

For over a century, neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning the human brain's development from birth to late adulthood. While ...

The timing of trauma determines adult behavioral outcomes like aggression or social anxiety by impacting specific ...

The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime. 1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Imagine if keeping your brain in top shape was as routine as brushing your teeth in the morning or exercising before work. Brain health is more than simply the absence of disease; it is the state of ...

The human brain goes through five major stages of development in its lifetime, each bringing "distinctive age-related changes", scientists have identified. Data shows there is a "non-linear change ...