The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...

A groundbreaking study challenges the traditional timeline of maturity, suggesting our cognitive wiring continues to evolve ...

For over a century, neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning the human brain's development from birth to late adulthood. While ...

The brain develops through distinct phases over the course of a lifetime, says a new study. During each of these phases, the brain’s capacity for reorganization and forming new connections changes.

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

As a society, we find ourselves at a crossroads between tradition and scientific understanding. While neuroscience has revealed that the human brain doesn't fully mature until approximately age 25, ...

Pediatricians and parents — and, really, anyone who works with children — have long known that a child’s social needs evolve with age. Yale researchers have now discovered the neurological signaling ...