Tag: brain development

Human cortical organoids show that ASPM mutations prematurely displace and impair the specification of outer radial glia cells, explaining why ...

Lab-grown brain organoids from humans, chimpanzees and gorillas reveal nearly 600 genetic switches that are more active in human neural ...

A new review compiles 23 genes whose rare variants can disrupt neuronal migration and cause periventricular nodular heterotopia, a malformation ...

A new review synthesizes evidence that the CB2 cannabinoid receptor is dynamically remodeled by early-life and adolescent adversity in a ...

Researchers have created the first multi-omic atlas of the developing mouse thalamus, revealing that sensory and motor-associated neuronal lineages diverge ...

Five scientists received 2026 BBRF Outstanding Achievement Prizes for research on schizophrenia, inflammation in depression, early brain development and the ...

A mouse study found that iron deficiency during pregnancy left persistent mineral and gene-expression changes in offspring brains despite normalization ...

Blocking asparagine synthetase restored brain growth and behaviors in Angelman syndrome mice by interrupting persistent neuronal stress signaling downstream of ...

Microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, deploy cytokines, chemokines, complement proteins, and phosphatidylserine recognition systems to build and refine neural ...

A study linking MRI and EEG in 138 people aged 7 to 21 found associations between regional brain volume and ...

An open-source R package now computes most non-proprietary summary scores for the ABCD Study, replacing fragmented scripts with transparent, reproducible ...

A large ABCD Study analysis found that children born late preterm show subtle regional brain-volume and white matter diffusion differences ...

Qualitative focus groups with caregivers of infants in a longitudinal MRI study reveal that sleep-related performance anxiety, not scanner fears, ...

A new opinion article argues that MRI's medical-model design excludes children with neurodevelopmental disorders from brain research, and that portable ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing early mammalian neurogenesis, revealing ...

A new commentary in Pediatric Research argues that the ratio between the omega-3 fatty acid DHA and the omega-6 fatty ...

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have identified an altered cerebellar-amygdala-thalamic brain circuit associated with anxiety in nearly 3,500 adolescents, detectable ...

A new review reveals that the dynamic expression of estrogen receptor subtypes across brain development may explain why anesthesia causes ...

A large multi-cohort neuroimaging study shows that the brain's intrinsic timescales mature hierarchically along the sensorimotor-to-association cortical axis during youth ...

A massively parallel reporter assay of 9,092 cortical-structure-associated variants reveals that Alu retrotransposons, Wnt signaling and transcription factor expression jointly ...