Researchers find marijuana use in teens tied to slower gains in memory, focus, and thinking skills.

The College of Arts and Sciences' second Spotlight Symposium honors UB neurodevelopmental biologist Soo-Kyung Lee’s FOXG1 ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

Brain health isn't determined only by genetics or what happens later in life. A growing body of research shows that a range ...

Clinicians use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess brain activity in epilepsy and sleep pathologies, and this powerful ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...

Over time, this simple habit begins to support multiple areas of brain development at once, often without adults even realising it. Here are six research-backed benefits of drawing for a child’s ...

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

A unique research at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), a part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University, is leading a ...

Group picture from the kick-off meeting of EPIADAPT. Prof. Tomohisa Toda (third from right) and his project at MPZPM were selected for a funding. The process of “epigenetic memory” in nerve cells ...

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