Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...
New research indicates that the structural organization of the human brain does not develop in a continuous, linear fashion ...
Researchers identify specific psychosocial factors that strongly correlate with altered brain development within the first ...
In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...
A genome-wide CRISPR study maps 331 genes essential for early brain development, identifying PEDS1 as a new ...
Using Findings from Studies on Adolescent Neurological Development to Design Interventions for Adolescents Recent findings from neurological development studies (e.g., Casey et al. 2000; Luna and ...