In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly.

Scientists have made a major advance in developmental neuroscience, creating the very first detailed atlas of how the vascular network of a mouse's brain grows after birth. Their study is published in ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, ...

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 ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

Teenagers who started using weed had slower gains in thinking and memory skills as they grew, researchers report today in the ...

(seb_ra/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The neurotransmitter serotonin, best known for its role in regulating mood, may also ...