SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing. This Collection welcomes original research articles that aim to unravel the earliest mechanisms and their timing in healthy brain development and in newborn / ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...

Brain scientists have long debated when, and how strongly, sex starts to shape the human brain. A growing body of imaging work now points to a clear answer: measurable differences in brain size and ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides a detailed model of how the human brain develops during the transition from the womb to early infancy. The findings indicate that distinct growth ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Neonates of mothers with schizophrenia or bipolar illness show abnormalities in the amygdala in the earliest stages of brain development that are consistent with ...

Research shows babies as young as two months old can already categorize what they see, offering fresh insight into early brain development.

Recent neuroscience research shows that our brain’s organization of the visual world occurs much earlier than previously ...

Racism is a public health crisis that affects the mental and physical well-being of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). But how far-reaching are these effects? Recent research reveals that ...