The first year of life is a period of rapid brain development. Your baby's brain is constantly forming and strengthening ...

The human brain reduces neural circuits during the process of growthThe human brain, reduces the connections between nerve ...

In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development ...

Thinking, learning, feeling—all sensory perceptions are processed in the brain. Roughly 100 billion nerve cells are interconnected in the human brain. The lightning-fast communication between these ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...

The fetal nervous system — i.e., your baby's brain, spinal cord, and nerves — is one of the very first systems to develop. In fact, it's making big strides before you even know you're pregnant. Fetal ...