The risk factors for ASD include a significant genetic component with hundreds of risk genes involved. Molecular profiling studies have observed consistent epigenetic and transcriptomic dysregulation ...

A team of researchers has created the first 'multiome' atlas of brain cell development in the human cerebral cortex across six broad developmental time points from fetal development into adulthood, ...

The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cerebral cortex responsible for the sense of touch. Researchers at DZNE, the University of Magdeburg, and the Hertie ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

Stressful situations experienced during adolescence tend to cause deeper and more lasting changes to the brain than those ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Brain-cell cultures are suspended in a dish at the lab of Sergiu Pasca, a Stanford University professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. (Timothy Archibald) Using a host of high-tech tools to ...

New neuroscience research identifies Glutamine Synthetase as the key enzyme driving postnatal brain maturation and neuronal ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD Key Takeaways Choline is an essential nutrient needed to make acetylcholine, a ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...