Social media didn’t make its way into children’s lives with a big announcement. It wormed its way in one app at a time, one ...

A University of Cambridge study reveals the brain undergoes five distinct developmental eras, extending well into adulthood and later life. Major rewiring and structural changes continue until the 30s ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Imagine watching the brain not as a finished organ but as a city under construction, where every neuron is a worker changing jobs as the skyline rises. A series of papers in Nature published on ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

The human brain goes through five distinct stages of development during the average human lifetime, with measurable key turning points as we grow, mature, age and decline, new research suggests.

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...

Nearly one in 10 parents say their child has been blackmailed online, while one in five (21 per cent) know a child that has experienced it, with threats ranging from the release of intimate images to ...

An NSPCC poll also reveals one in seven respondents from Northern Ireland have been worried during the holidays for the safety of a child known to them. It found that two-thirds of adults in the ...