University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...