Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

Newborn finger proportions may reflect early hormone exposure and could be linked to differences in early brain growth.

Your baby's brain is one of the first major organs to start developing – just three weeks in. And here's the wild part: It'll keep growing all the way into their 20s. The brain and spinal cord team up ...

Scientists studying human development are working to improve equipment to learn how babies' brains develop. A team at ...

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 ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

A study published in Environment International concludes that air pollution during pregnancy is associated with slower brain maturation in newborns. It is the first study to analyze brain development ...

In A Nutshell Category recognition starts early: Two-month-old infants’ brains already organize objects into meaningful categories: alive vs. not alive, big vs. small, despite having blurry vision and ...

Researchers have discovered that newborns have high levels of the tau protein, which is elevated in older people with Alzheimer’s disease, but that it causes them no harm. The discovery opens the door ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by certain key changes in the brain. Among them are the development of two kinds of protein deposits: clumps made up of amyloid beta and tangles of tau. These ...