Before deciding if a brain scan is right for you, it's important to first understand what it is and why someone might need one. The brain is made up of white matter (nerve fibers surrounded by a ...

IBG and the Institute for Cognitive Science are collaborators on a landmark national study of adolescent brain and cognitive development (ABCD). The ABCD study is the ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. As part of the Woman's Hour ...

There is also plenty more to understand about the adolescent brain. But by looking at some typical neurological differences between the teen and adult brain, perhaps we can learn a bit more about ...

The team went on to analyze three large, publicly available fMRI datasets containing data from 50,000 people: the Human Connectome Project, the Adolescent Brain Cognitive ... other motor and sensory ...