The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

Neurobiologist Angelo Forli has received the prestigious Career Development Grant from the Giovanni Armenise Harvard Foundation, worth 1 million dollars for a five-year project. The researcher has ...

Researchers have shown that a green-Mediterranean diet can help slow brain aging. By analyzing data from the DIRECT PLUS trial, scientists found reduced levels of proteins tied to faster brain decline ...

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Tracking neural activities throughout brain development is critical to understanding how neurons self-assemble into an organ capable of learning, behaviour and cognition 1. However, achieving ...

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For years, we were told that growing new brain cells in adulthood was impossible. Once the brain matured, that was it. No going back, and that you will only slowly lose memory. But science has proven ...

Harvard scientists developed a virtual rat model with an AI brain to study how brains control the movement of real rats. This innovative model accurately simulates neural activity observed in real ...

How does our brain, which is capable of generating complex thoughts, actions and even self-reflection, grow out of essentially nothing? An experiment in tadpoles, in which an electronic implant was ...

Postnatal brain development is important for individual and societal outcomes. We need large-scale cohort studies from diverse populations to generate generalizable insights into the factors that ...

A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain ...