Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered that an immunosuppressive drug affects microglia, the resident immune ...
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The five stages of brain development

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime.
Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is ...
A study suggesting that the human brain enters a stable phase around age 32 has people in their 20s feeling validated. University of Cambridge neuroscientists released their research results on ...
Research shows babies as young as two months old can already categorize what they see, offering fresh insight into early ...
Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...
A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems ...
A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such ...
Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's going on in the development of their brains.