The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

A cellular-resolution map of prenatal brain development in Down syndrome reveals disrupted neuron production timing and altered cell types.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

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.

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

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Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford ...

Comparison between human brain surface MRI reconstructions and ferret brain simulations for the cortical malformation polymicrogyria. A simple set of physical rules, including the relative thickness ...