Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

The first standard map continuously tracking how the human brain is organized and changes from birth to old age has been created. A research team led by Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV and Professor Pew-Thian ...

Researchers at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine in collaboration with the Child Mind Institute have introduced a new open access brain data resource designed to aid understanding of how brain ...

A new large-scale, open data resource from the Perelman School of Medicine and collaborators helps researchers link brain development with mental health disorders. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such ...

Gamma brain waves are rhythmic electric processes in nerve cells called neurons. Nerve activity in the brain allows for communication throughout the brain to carry out functions such as memory, ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...