New research from UC San Diego sheds light on how cannabis affects youth and their ability to maintain attention, react and retain information.

By studying mice throughout their lives, scientists revealed that a network of neurons in the hippocampus starts out dense ...

The findings may have implications for the classroom, as well as for broader efforts to reduce socioeconomic disparities in ...

A new study from Oregon Health & Science University found that air pollution can impact adolescent brain development. The analysis indicated that exposure to common air pollutants is associated with ...

Researchers now suggest that the human brain goes through five distinct phases of development over the course of a lifetime. 1. Childhood, from birth to age 9, during which time the brain is ...

Extremely preterm birth (before 28 weeks of gestation) places infants into the world at one of the most extraordinary moments ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to ...

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