Researchers have mapped how "histone bivalency" acts as a molecular clock for brain development. By holding genes in a poised state, this mechanism ensures neurons mature only after completing ...

A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel ...

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Just as pruning tree branches helps them grow better, a study has found that appropriately "pruning" neural circuits in the ...

Neuroscience reveals the brain is shaped through relationships—not in isolation—challenging individualistic psychiatry and ...

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 ...