In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

Brain rot” was chosen as the 2024 Word of the Year, but what does it mean?

Instead, brain development might best be thought of as a cascading interaction between nature and nurture that unfolds over time. Twenty five years ago, the National Academy of Sciences published ...

Although researchers are in the nascent stages of studying the impacts of climate change on brain development, it should come as no surprise that much like cigarette smoke, drugs and toxicants, ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered a novel mechanism involved in brain development. They found that small ...

University of Limerick’s Damien Thompson explains the research behind a brain-inspired analogue computing platform that is made of completely different material to the silicon used in ...

The 'seed and soil' theory may be applied to prostate cancer (PC) brain metastasis (BM) development, with the possibility of having a dormant period. The clinical mechanism of true BM development ...

The authors propose a departure from conventional digital designs, advocating for analog chips inspired by the dynamic processes of the brain. Development of a new generation of AI They also suggest ...

Adolescence is a critical period for brain development, which continues until the mid-to-late 20s. There have been some small studies that looked at the impact of cannabis use on young people’s ...

Genetic variants linked to autism are associated with structural differences in neonatal white matter, particularly increased ...

Viruses carry only a limited set of instructions in their own genetic material, so to reproduce ... ANKLE2 is known to be involved in brain development in the fetus, but is found in cells ...