New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

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

“Over longer periods of time, exercise and physical activity increase formation of new brain cells ... which will impact ...

Our brain does not go through life in a linear fashion. A vast mapping of neural wiring, established from thousands of ...

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

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

Scientists have pinpointed five different "eras" of brain aging, from childhood to old age. The eras include a prolonged ...

THE brain changes at four key ages in our lives, a study suggests. Adult thinking might start later than thought, while disease starts growing frighteningly early. Scientists at the University of ...

Why are teenagers so much more impulsive and more emotional, than adults? “It’s all about the brain,” said Chandler Todd, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico, to an ...

For parents mystified by changes they see brewing in their preteen, La Cañada Unified School District is offering a free six-week parenting workshop starting next Thursday intended to shed light on ...