Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the ...

Summary: A developmental neurobiology breakthrough uncovered a previously unmapped molecular pathway that regulates brain ...

A team of researchers has discovered that the developing brain can reorganize its sensory maps when the sense of touch is affected. In a study published today in Nature Communications, the Development ...

Brain development does not occur uniformly across the brain, but follows a newly identified developmental sequence, according to a new Penn Medicine study. Brain regions that support cognitive, social ...

Phenotypic plasticity in Lepidoptera encompasses the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple morphological, physiological and behavioural phenotypes in response to environmental cues. Such ...

Researchers have now uncovered their crucial role in closing the period of brain plasticity that follows birth, finding them to be key to the development of sensory and cognitive faculties. Over the ...

Harvard Medical School researchers identified a cortisol-driven pathway that regulates critical-period closure in the ...

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

For much of modern history, the brain was seen as largely fixed by the end of childhood. Intelligence, personality, and ability were believed to follow a mostly predetermined biological path.

Polypterus senegalus walks across a sandy substrate. Fish use their fins and body in combination to move across a terrestrial substrate. Fins are planted one after the other to lift the head and ...