A new longitudinal study finds that as children grow, the left and right hemispheres of their brains become less synchronized, with the change occurring faster in adolescents with superior ...

Fetal growth restriction may affect babies' heart rate, pain response, brain structure, growth and early development long ...

Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods show faster declines in key measures of brain development during adolescence compared to peers from higher-opportunity areas, according to a new ...

The perinatal period, encompassing both prenatal and early postnatal stages, is a highly dynamic and foundational phase of brain development. Despite its significance, limited work has tracked brain ...

Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have created one of the largest reference models ever developed ...

Study: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Image credit: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to ...

The outer regions of the brain, the cortex, have specific layers of different cells—neurons—that are similarly ordered among all mammals, from tiny mouse brains to huge elephant brains. However, the ...