The connections a baby's brain forms during the first two years of life, coupled with a baby's genetic makeup, offer a window ...

The first two years of a baby’s life are critical for brain development, and how the brain grows during that time may help ...

Researchers have developed the first images of the physical changes in ... defects can be fully reversed through treatment with a brain growth factor released at synapses. Ampakines, a new class ...

SEATTLE, July 22 (UPI) -- Autistic children show abnormal brain growth during their first few ... School of Medicine in Seattle compared brain images of 45 autistic kids ages 3 and 4 to those ...

A new approach to measuring early brain development of infants has been developed by scientists, resulting in more accurate whole brain growth charts ... high quality images of different types ...

A study using brain images from "quiet" MRI machines adds to ... to look at the brain growth in a sample of children under the age of 4. The research found that by age 2, babies who had been ...

Dr. Albert Rhoton of the University of Florida has collected an unparalleled library of brain-anatomy images. Available in 3D online through iTunes University, the images allow surgeons to view ...

It’s an image of microscopic blood flow in a rat’s brain, taken with one of many new tools that are yielding higher levels of detail in brain imaging. Here are seven more glorious images from ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the ...

"It points us to the fact that the period before normal birth is a critical time for brain growth," said study researcher ... to create images of the brain, so the babies in this study weren ...