Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered a mechanism that controls the completion of critical periods of brain ...

Neurobiologist Angelo Forli has received the prestigious Career Development Grant from the Giovanni Armenise Harvard Foundation, worth 1 million dollars for a five-year project. The researcher has ...

A new Harvard study underscores that children's healthy brain and body development depends on a 'web' of interconnected stability factors, from housing and finances to routines and caregiver ...

Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which recently received greater attention when Billy Joel announced his diagnosis.

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...