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Brain-imaging data collected from fetuses and infants has revealed a rapid surge in functional connectivity between brain regions on a global scale at birth, possibly reflecting neural processes that ...

A study reveals our brain development changes at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83.

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

The human brain grows in size and creates new neural pathways during the first nine years of life, which begin at birth. The ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Researchers utilize a large functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset to model developmental trajectories of brain functional networks spanning 25 to 55 weeks of post-conceptual gestational age.