Adolescence may be far more than a period of pruning away unused brain connections. New research suggests the teenage brain ...

The detailed mapping revealed an unexpected pattern. One specific section of the dendrite contained an unusually dense ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

This image shows densely accumulated dendritic spines. Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously ...

Adolescence marks an important transition not just socially and physically, but neurologically. During this period, higher cognitive ...

Exosome-associated THSD7A is identified as a key trigger of filopodia formation in cancer cells and neurons, revealing a ...

Surfing has the potential to improve human health in ways that go far beyond blue health. The closest comparison in modern ...

The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces known as dendritic spines. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder. SHANK2/3 copy-number variants and truncating mutations account for ~1 % of ASD cases. POSH (plenty of SH3s, also known ...