Every cell in our body has a sex. But most research so far has focused on our gonads—ovaries or testes—and not on the early development of the brain. Per-Erik Olsson, professor of biology at Örebro ...

Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new neurons in the lab and enhance brain processes affected by aging or ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

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 ...

Whether men and women think and behave differently is both self-evident and endlessly debated. Most people intuitively believe that males and females on average have distinct brains—and if you talk to ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene linked to a severe neurodevelopmental disorder not previously described.