New neuroscience research reveals how our brains evolve through key life stages, highlighting the hidden strengths of aging.

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

Groundbreaking neurocognition research is sharpening the scientific focus on a once little-understood process in early childhood: myelination. As studies reveal how this critical brain mechanism ...

The World Bank drives early childhood development globally through financing, policy, and partnerships to boost health, learning, and equity.

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

Researchers identify that the brain's sensory checkpoint (TRN) undergoes a molecular "upgrade" in adulthood for high-resolution perception.

Medications that disrupt rapid eye movement (REM) sleep—such as stimulants, antipsychotics, and antidepressants—may alter the development of a child's brain according to a new study from Washington ...

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early ...