Cannabis appears to aggravate already decreasing nerve connectivity in young adults at risk of psychosis, a new study has ...

The human brain undergoes remarkable transformations from infancy through maturity, with each life stage bringing unique cognitive changes.

A review from UC Irvine explores the effects of early-life adversity on brain development, emphasizing how unpredictable ...

Early-life adversity affects over half of children worldwide, increasing the risk of cognitive and mental health issues later ...

Synaptic pruning is a crucial neurodevelopmental process through which the brain refines its neural circuitry by systematically eliminating excess or weak synaptic connections. During early ...

This claim is based on a 2017 study in The Journal of Neuroscience which investigated the effect of the lack of sleep on the ...

"Deep sleep builds your immune system, and REM sleep regulates and fine-tunes it," says Darwall-Smith agrees. During deep ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...