A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

Learn how five distinct brain ages guide the way we think, learn, and grow older.

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

Phase one –the “childhood phase” — lasts until age nine, per the study. During this window, the brain’s wealth of synapses – ...

Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds - New analysis has found that the human brain ...

Researchers reveal that four ages – nine, 32, 66 and 83 – are when the brain’s most pivotal development occurs.

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.