That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

New findings from Karolinska Institutet reveal how the gene HNRNPU coordinates several fundamental molecular processes during the earliest stages of human brain development. The study is published in ...

The human brain has grown throughout evolution, and researchers have long sought to understand why. A new peer-reviewed study from Swansea University, published in Early Human Development, indicates ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s push to foster medical technology champions to rival US groups such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink is ...